“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.” MindStillsNightMeditationBuddhismPeriodsMindfulnessGains Author:Frederick Lenz
“I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.” NightAmountPeriodsBreathsGrassWeedSurprisingEvery Night Author:David Letterman
“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.” MadeMotivationalSchoolNightStuffTalkingSunCreativeGroupsMiddleBuildingInvolvedPeriodsRoseListsI RealizedTricksClosestBe CreativeConnectingMiddle SchoolPicklesClosest Friends Author:Tony Hsieh
“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.” TryingYearsSometimesWould BeLyingNightImaginePeriodsOddAwakeBeing The BestSeventiesAwake At Night Author:Michael Dirda
“It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.” Has BeensNightEnergyAwarenessBuddhismPeriodsReflectionTransitionExposureNetworkingRamaRepetitive Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.” FeelsTwoEndsPlayCharacterNightHoursHalfLike YouPeriodsTruckHalf Hours Author:Kevin Spacey
“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.” FactsActionNightNaturalSleepMoralHabitPeriodsExerciseDiseaseApproachIntellectualConsequenceAccountsTendenciesInstanceNervousCharacteristicsInclinationNervous SystemResumesRegularity Author:George Combe
“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.” IfsWayWritingLongHardFactsLightNightProcessNovelPeriodsToughLifetimeWaveDeeperPassingPassingsWiserFrustratingOne NightElevenNeedlesTediousTime PassingExplosivesGreat AmericanTime PassesObservantPassing It Author:Rod Serling
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.” WorldWellsLongDoeSoulReasonWholeSeemsNightIndividualDarkAbilityEmotionHigherPeriodsRight NowSaintWhole WorldWitnessParadoxStomachDisturbingHideousDark NightDark Night Of The Soul Author:Flannery O'Connor
“[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.” WorldYearsChildrenWholeHelpingHomeMovingNightFightingEnemyStruggleReadyPeriodsRewardsWhole WorldHardestEnjoyedEnjoymentAssociationPreparingAmmunitionHousekeepingSuffragistsReady To Move On Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.” NightWhitePlayerPeriodsBaseballSaturdayFeverAthleticsSoftballSaturday NightOutfitsDiscoGaudySoftball PlayerSaturday Night Fever Author:George Vecsey
“A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.” WritingMeanTwoNightThreeGoes OnPeriodsDry Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993 Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.” NightPeriodsProgrammingTimelessDreamtime Author:Stewart Brand
“Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.” WritingMeanSometimesNightClassWeekPeriodsTenPatientUniversityMagazinesBe PatientSomewhere ElseAssignmentsThursdayThursday Night Author:Pam Houston
“My girlfriend says that I thrash throughout the night, for longer periods than are generally accepted as corresponding to REM sleep, and she often has to move to the couch to get any sort of rest before she goes to work in the morning.” MovingNightSleepMorningPeriodsAcceptedGirlfriendCouchesMy GirlfriendCorresponding Author:Keith Murray
“Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.” PeopleFirstsNightWatchesCouplePeriodsSeries Author:Tim Roth
“You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.” WantYearsStillsI CanSelfJobsNightSongNiceWonderfulParticularPeriodsPicksExtrasWonderful ThingsResonanceOld Self Author:Bruce Springsteen