Tad Williams Quotes

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.