Able Quote by Peter Kinderman

“Rumination is a maladaptive form of self-reflection that has an addictive quality. When you’re constantly “in your head,” looping negative thoughts, brooding, and thinking…

— S.J. Scott

“This cycle happens because we are unconscious of our thoughts, and we allow them to run rampant in our brains without challenging them or…

— S.J. Scott

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

“Overindulgence of our brain's tendency to wander is, however, a potentially debilitating problem. Psychologists have even coined a phrase to describe it: obsessive rumination.”

— David DiSalvo

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from…

— Dan Mager

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

— Diane Ackerman

Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can't control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can't solve, the less…

— Amy Morin

My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my syntax, as…

— George Saunders

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into…

— James Clavell

“We can control and direct our thoughts, but it often feels like our thoughts have minds of their own, controlling us and how we…

— S.J. Scott