Quotes About Rumination

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

LOL-inspiring thought: Wouldn't it

Strange, hearing you just now ... my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth.

I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.

Before you speak or act, first and foremost try to chew the cud within you i.e. think and have a rethink reflectively before you talk or act. I mean, do consider and reconsider whatever you intend to do or say before daring to talk or act in any matter or case. For, doing just that is probable to positively influence your speech or action.

concerning." He paused, tilting

I also don't have much memory of going to the counsellor who told me I was anxious. Actually, this is a common theme across all of my anxious episodes - very hazy recollections of every day details, like dates and locations, but sharp-as-tack memories of the theories and ruminations that accompanied the episodes. Anyone else experience the same?

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking

But research shows that rumination does exactly the opposite: our ability to solve problems actually deteriorates markedly during rumination.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

she thought to herself.

He stood mumbling for a moment

He paused to consider.

Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.

Do you always think this much, Charlie?

Do you always thinks this much, Charlie

GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's own troubles