Quiet Contemplation Champion Gifts

40 Days without an on-the-job conversation.

"A perfectly working medical alert button! ...But no one ever heard it!"

"They haven't said two words to each other—it's sad... I hope we don't end up like that." "They keep talking to each other—it's exhausting... So glad we don't have to do that."

"Oh good, more time alone for quiet reflection."

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

Man falls off perch

Never being able to think of the right thing to say at the right time phobia.

"Autumn already? O.K., I'll come down."

Metaphors.

"Boy, I wish I had brought some magazines..."

'Make up your mind! Are you mulling or musing?'

'He's a man of few words. Words to the editor not included.'

If a tweet is sent out and no one signs up to read it, does it exist? Happens millions of times a day.

Computer with moon screensaver

"Please hold my calls."

"Maybe marriage is what I need, Gregorio. Sometiems I wonder if I'm living my life for other people...instead of living life for myself."

"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it — who cares?!"

'They made him take a vow of silence so he'd have to stop complaining about his oath of poverty.'

Sidney comes to the end of life's motorway

"My mind is especially empty today."

The John Cage Carollers

"As a single diner, you will be seated at an awkward table by the restrooms where your lonely presence won't bother other diners."

Man at bank sees sign: Please Do Not Feed The Bankers.

"What a lot of people don't realize is that I actually enjoy an incredibly rich interior life."

'Hello, I would like to talk to somebody.'

"What is this endless series of meaningless experiences trying to teach me?"

"Have you given any thought to what you want to think about when you grow up?"

'The Question'

"I want to learn to live in the moment... just not this moment. some other moment. Like a moment on the beach."

Recycling Bin - Newspapers, Magazines, Broken Dreams

'What matters is what you think. What others think is none of your beeswax.'

'I live in quiet desperation - it was either that or Tunbridge Wells.'

Death is just a side-effect of living.

"She's really great. Maybe we can be friends and not hang out."

"Hmm...I don't like it - it's too quiet..."