Quotes about Reflection
Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
— Jerry Bridges
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
— John Piper
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
— Maya Angelou
Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
— Pema Chodron
I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
— Seth Godin
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
— Stephen Malkmus
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.
— Thomas a Kempis
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
— Thomas Merton