Waterfall Quotes
69 quotes by 66 authors
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
— Annie Dillard
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A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something…
— Vernon Howard
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With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
— Mary Pipher
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When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not…
— Steve Blank
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve…
— Bernard DeVoto
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It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of…
— Kim Stanley
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The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".
— Paulo Coelho
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Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as…
— Bruce Feiler
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I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
— Mike May
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I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot.…
— Marianne Fredriksson
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When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of…
— Simon McBurney
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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able…
— Rebecca West
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There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile…
— Agnes Martin
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it…
— Arthur Golden
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At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its…
— Sheng-yen
Who Wrote These Waterfall Quotes
66 authors contributed a total of 69 Waterfall Quotes, led by these top contributors: