Sandra Bullock Quotes

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

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.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

I'm a super spiritual person, so every now and then I'll say, "Everyone, get out of my room because I need 15 minutes by myself to just sit alone." I have a chapter in my book [How to Be a Bawse] called "Pause," and basically, the idea is one of the ways to be successful is to reflect back on your successes and everything you've achieved.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

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.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.