Contemplation Quote by Douglas V. Steere Download Open image “Work without contemplation is never enough.” — Douglas V. Steere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplation Enough Garden Gardening Inspirational Meditation Religion Spirit Spirituality Work
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. — John Cage Copy Share Image
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me… — Rebecca McCann Copy Share Image
No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore. — Douglas V. Steere Copy Share Image
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes,… — Douglas V. Steere Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
