Avoids Quote by Mason Cooley

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

— Pete Rose

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

— Patanjali

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

— Thomas Merton

I do not so easily think in words… after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to…

— Francis Galton

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

— Dan Ariely

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose…

— Bill Vaughan

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as…

— Alain de Botton

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

— John Jay Chapman

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I…

— David Bohm

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

— Anonymous

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound…

— John Locke

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

— Chris Van Allsburg