Edward Norton Quotes

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

I slowly breathe in and out,and i find myself relaxing more and more with each breath

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

Never underestimate the healing power of breath.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games.

We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.

I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation. I have come across one book - the name of the book is YOU MUST RELAX! Now that very word 'must' is enough to keep you tense. Relaxation cannot be a "must," it cannot be an effort.

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.