Home / Topics / Quiet Quotes

Quiet Quotes

Browse 3552 quotes about Quiet.

Quiet Quotes

“Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.”

People Humanity Culture Quiet Achievement Responsible Introvert Reserved Biased Greatest Achievement

Author:Susan Cain

“At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.”

World Long Whole Lying Culture Fame Quiet Anxiety Lows Standing Weight Manage Grades Graduates Fulfilled Stature Preschool

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.”

World Lying Certain Values Culture Difficult Sleep Periods Quiet Down And Contemplating Eastern Going To Sleep Other Cultures Westerners Great Value Withdrawing

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.”

“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.”

People Needs Has Beens Certain Culture Secret Practice Teaching Special Information Becoming Easier Quiet Benefits Tradition Access

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet details, whether it be a small village outside of Colombo [country?] or the favelas of Brazil, where, again, resistance culture is something that you hear resonating in the streets of South Central Los Angeles as well.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Has Beens Country Jobs Moving Culture Bits Watches Streets Quiet South Details Resistance Los Angeles Village Brazil Resonating Small Villages Favelas

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.”

Long Moments Beautiful Culture Term Interesting Fashion Quiet Fulfilling Popular Culture

Author:Tom Ford

“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.”

Kind Whole Culture Fame Quiet Anxiety Lows Grades Fulfilled Colleagues Stature Preschool

Author:Anne Lamott

“Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.”

Film Culture Audience Quiet Hong Kong

Author:Jet Li

“Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.”

World Way Art Might Together Law Certain Humanity Culture Language Quality Quiet Mark Add Educated Metals Engineering Polish Quality Of Life Mundane Sloppy Luster Better Quality Of Life

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley