Open mind Quote by John Cage

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do…

— Michael Wolff

“Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the…

— Julien Green

“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out…

— Virginia Woolf

“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up…

— John Daido Loori

“But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us…

— Sharon Creech

“So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for…

— Thomas M. Sterner

“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson