Quotes About Mind

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.