Pico Iyer Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Sitting Still, Age, Movement

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Sitting Still, Age

• In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

  Pico Iyer

  Age, Attention, Distraction

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

  Pico Iyer

  Age, Acceleration, Exhilarating

  "How Can We Find More Time To Be Still?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

• To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Home, Community

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.

  Pico Iyer

  Grandmother, Land, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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