Silent Observation Quotes

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

I observe and remain silent.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

Hear, see, and be silent.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

If people were really trying to learn a lot and determine what is true, the would listen a lot and talk a little.

Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

I am more of an introvert person who is a little shy to get into random chat. I would rather observe people silently.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.