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  • Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. -- Mariel Hemingway
  • I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me. -- Olivia Newton-John
  • We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. -- Susan L. Taylor
  • Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. -- Henri Nouwen
  • For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean -- Tupac Shakur
  • For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating. -- Josh McDermitt
  • I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit. -- Christopher Bailey
  • In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone. -- Dar Williams
  • In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing. -- Robin Williams
  • Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. -- Margaret Wise Brown
  • The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. -- Adrian Rogers
  • I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging. -- Donald Trump
  • The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best. -- Ken Blanchard
  • A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him. -- Buck Brannaman
  • When you feel the need for a spiritual lift, try getting to bed early and get up early to have a quiet time at dawn. Then carry the serene 'in tune' feeling that comes to you into your day, no matter what you may be doing. -- Peace Pilgrim
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  • If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship. -- Adrian Rogers
  • Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most? -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • It's important to have quiet time and isolation. -- John Burnside
  • Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth. -- Linda Gray
  • I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. -- Andrew Motion
  • Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. -- Bruce Dickinson
  • There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
  • I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read. -- Kesha
  • Take time to be quiet. -- Zig Ziglar
  • It is time for dead languages to be quiet. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
  • A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time. -- Mason Cooley
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  • I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking. -- Norman Reedus
  • Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought. -- Alexander Graham Bell
  • The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. -- William Wordsworth
  • Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind. -- Flora Thompson
  • There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed. -- LaToya London
  • Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be. -- Bear Grylls
  • No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. -- James Joyce
  • Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. -- Deb Caletti
  • People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. -- John Miller
  • There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light. -- Robert Adams
  • I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant. -- Jamie Redknapp
  • I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back. -- Barack Obama
  • My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. -- John Cage
  • I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven. -- Anne Lamott
  • I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting. -- Gene Wilder
  • If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power. -- H. Emilie Cady
  • Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart. -- Jack Kornfield
  • Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
  • I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Someone asked them to be quiet, so it's just a matter of a time before all hell breaks loose. -- Brian Andreas
  • When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out. -- Kim Cattrall
  • I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet. -- Kid Cudi
  • There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart. -- Sarah Dessen
  • It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them. -- Evan Dando
  • Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
  • I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. -- James McHenry
  • I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek. -- Jodie Whittaker
  • Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation. -- Russell Simmons
  • My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. -- William Faulkner
  • Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness. -- Russell Simmons
  • Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time. -- Carmen Electra
  • Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness. -- Jack Kornfield
  • My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time. -- Ishmael Beah
  • I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word. -- Anne Graham Lotz
  • Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds. -- Stuart Wilde
  • People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm. -- Jaime Murray
  • If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives. -- Henri Nouwen
  • The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet. -- Roger Housden
  • Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. -- Anna Quindlen
  • ... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea. -- Anna Julia Cooper
  • Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing. -- Madeleine Albright
  • I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light. -- Frederick Lenz
  • I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption. -- Wole Soyinka
  • It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away. -- Karl Marx
  • Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time. -- Rachel Held Evans
  • In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord. -- Francis Chan
  • Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
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  • Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. -- Ester Buchholz
  • Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
  • My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park. -- Idina Menzel
  • There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. -- Linda Hogan
  • Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
  • A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life. -- Margaret Walker
  • But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself -- J.R. Ward
  • My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park. -- Idina Menzel
  • By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all. -- Claire Tomalin
  • Iâ??d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in othersâ?? eyes, reflected. -- Al Berto
  • We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus... -- John Green
  • Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought -- Karl Jaspers
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