Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Listen to the sound of silence.

The wisdom of silence is a great asset.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.