Victor Hugo Quotes

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Most of my work is in my mind.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

I always got ideas.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I spent a lot of my childhood sat on a wall thinking, waiting for my mum to pick me up.

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

I like to be able to work quickly, to capture the spark of an idea before it goes out.

There is no art without contemplation.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

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

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.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream