“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle166
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 209
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
"A Fisherman" in Wild Ways : Zen Poems (2003), edited and translated by John Stevens, p. 37.
Context: Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.
Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;
Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night.
“What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him …”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: What you have is His gift to you; what you do with what you have is your gift to Him.
Thiago Silva (1984) Brazilian footballer
Interview with Globo Esporte, 2011 http://www.football-italia.net/node/13081
“silence makes you wise, among the noisemakers”
Josephs Quartzy (1999) Tanzanian actor
Source: Sweetest song I know
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to Harold Laski, Chairman of the Labour Party (1946), quoted in David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 289.
Prime Minister
“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin