“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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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 209
"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 …”
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.
Interview with Globo Esporte, 2011 http://www.football-italia.net/node/13081
“silence makes you wise, among the noisemakers”
Source: Sweetest song I know
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
“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin