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Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred. -- Roberto Giobbi
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite. -- Maria Shriver
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings. -- John Keats
Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life. -- Roma Downey
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping -- Nicholas Sparks
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. -- Clarence Day
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. -- Victor Hugo
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. -- Elizabeth Kenny
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. -- Michael Musto
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this? -- David Jeremiah
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. -- Walt Whitman
Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. -- Bob Kerrey
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it -- Charles Stanley
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day. -- Kent Nerburn
But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient. -- C. J. Mahaney
May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you. -- David Steindl-Rast
Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself. -- Jean Hersey
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef. -- Janette Turner Hospital
Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap. -- Jennifer Lawrence
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets. -- Thomas Moore
An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day. -- Robert Fulghum
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. -- Andrew Bacevich
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. -- Sydney Smith
I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee. -- Tim Heidecker
Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have. -- David Gemmell
While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night. -- Maggie Stiefvater
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. -- Henry David Thoreau
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it. -- Al Gore
I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective. -- Nikki DeLoach
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. -- Jane Austen
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. -- Clarence Day
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be. -- Douglas Adams
O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play. -- Robert Burns

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