Reflection Time Quotes

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

I needed to get out of Seattle. I had to just come into my own world, my own zone, and really appreciate me and my music.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

I don't get to do quiet time.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.