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“It is possible to sit still and watch your thoughts arise and then, without grabbing them, watch them disappear. This is the practice of meditation and mindfulness, a practice that you learn to carry with you. The goal isn’t to stop thoughts. Instead, the goal is the practice of seeing them clearly as they come into view and then letting them go. If you can notice anger or anxiety arising at the ground level, in its first inception, then you can easily watch it dissolve. In these instances, it is present sight, not hindsight, that is 20/20.”

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Author:Eric Overby

“I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.”

Stills Walking Sitting Meetings Desks Blackberries Sitting Still

Author:Dylan Lauren

“If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.”

Ifs Long Stills Moving Periods Sitting Boring Monotony Long Periods Of Time Sitting Still Constantly Moving

Author:Amy Seimetz

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

Stills Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Active Passive Meditation Practice Sitting Still

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”

Firsts Stills Order Risk Share Fool Genius Sitting Wheels Glances Brilliance Sitting Still

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

Stills Hours Work Company Sitting Train Miles Sixty Going To Work Human Resources Getting High Sitting Still Large Companies

Author:J. Paul Getty

“I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.”

Thinking Persons Stills Used Given Ability Situation Known Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Trey Songz

“I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?”

Thinking Knows Feels Doe Stills Passion Enjoy Work Simple Truth Is Sitting Sick Constant Committed Driven Kicks Sitting Still

Author:Beverly Sills

“I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.”

Needs Writing Stills Wish Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Jami Attenberg

“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Stills Sometimes Three Talking Worst Habit Right Now Basketball Sitting Tunes Rude Sitting Still

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.”

Stills Hard Moving Strong Hours Ready Sitting Weak Performances Muscles Sitting Still

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.”

Years Children Littles Stills Ideas Hours Five Sitting Cruelty Torture Five Years Gazing One Hour Five Year Olds Vacancy Sitting Still

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.”

Writing Stills Sitting Reactions Length Sitting Still

Book:Nabokov's congeries

Source: Nabokov's congeries

“The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.”

Men May Littles Persons Doe Stills Force Justice He Man Sitting Reputation Merit Estates Doing Nothing Neighbour Propriety Sitting Still

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”

Feels Stills Book Reading Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Jef Mallett

“Growing up, road trips with Dad were something I hated. Sitting still for hours, singing that stupid song, "100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bottles of beer..." Dad, you know, keeping up with the song.”

Knows Stills Song Hours Growing Up Growing Stupid Wall Dad Singing Sitting Beer Hated Bottles Road Trip Sitting Still

Author:Christopher Titus

“I'm not very good at sitting still.”

Stills Sitting Very Good Sitting Still

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.”

“There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.”

Knows World Feels Long Stills Different Bits Differences Long Time Sitting Hectic Sitting Still

Author:Tina Turner

“Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.”

“I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.”

People Kind Children Said Stills Helping Can Do Sitting Brilliant Toms Old People Sitting Still

Author:Ray Bradbury

“And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.”

Stills Soul Dream Eye Lying Doors Sitting Shadow My Soul His Eyes Demon Floating Chamber Seeming Ravens Streaming Nevermore Sitting Still Dead Zone

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

Ifs Knows Wells Stills States Feelings Desire Loses Walks Walking Sitting Everyday Ill Illness Well Being Trekking Strolling Sitting Still

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.”

Stills Dream Moving Girl Crazy Sitting Blue Train Confused Cash Stolen Interrupted Sitting Still Just A Girl Girl Interrupted

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.”

Littles Stills Space Grief Sitting Busy Sitting Still

Book:Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)

Source: Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)

“It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.”

Men Humans Stills Humanity Race Calling Sitting Distance Human Race Sitting Still

Author:Albert Einstein

“The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.”

“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”

World Stills Behinds Military Six Sitting Army Twenties Division Strongest Allies Concrete Steel Valiant Sitting Still

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.”

Men Firsts Heart Stills Turns Christ Hell Grace Eternal Sitting Conviction Conversion Ruins Sincerely Haste Sitting Still

Book:The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works : an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times : and a Portrait

Source: The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works : an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times : and a Portrait

“The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.”

Stills Water Half Cutting Sea Sitting Boat Destroyed Vessel Shepherds Sitting Still

Author:Paul Watson

“Sitting still as stone watching - watching People walking by you wondering why No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Wonder Walking Sitting Stones Sitting Still

Author:Dave Matthews

“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”

Stills Pain Meditation Sitting Ass Buddhist Sitting Still

Author:Noah Levine

“For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.”

Kind Stills Sitting Harder Sitting Still

Author:Annie Oakley

“When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.”

“Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.”

Writing Wells Stills Dream Path Willing Walking Shapes Pages Sitting Presses Patient Wide Resistance Breathing Allowing Pencils Slow Down Lunatic Bruises Slowing Writing Well Sitting Still

Author:Dani Shapiro

“A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.”

Stills Secret Thousand Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Karlfried Graf Durckheim

“There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.”

Heart Stills Eye Sitting Sitting Still

Book:Signs and Wonders

Source: Signs and Wonders

“Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.”

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...”

Stills Sitting Ravens Nevermore Sitting Still Dead Zone

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.”

Mind Stills Sitting Relax Imaginative Sitting Still

Book:The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

“That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.”

Way Stills Book Hands Reading Education Learning Sitting Depth Sitting Still

Author:Ramona Koval

“You see more sitting still than chasing after.”

Stills Sitting Stillness Chasing Sitting Still

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”

Thinking Feels Stills Age Attention Movement Sitting Constant Speed Pay Attention Distraction Urgent Exhilarating Luxurious Sitting Still

Author:Pico Iyer

“In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”

Stills Age Movement Sitting Constant Urgent Sitting Still

Book:The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

“When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.”

Littles Stills Different Felt Realizing Fire One Day Sitting I Realized Loud Fitting Sitting Still Maleficent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.”

Knows Stills Sitting Ideals Restless Cleanliness Restlessness Celibacy Sitting Still

Author:John Steinbeck