Branch Rickey Quotes

There is nothing clever about confusion.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Players perform best when their minds are clear.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Clarity affords focus.

We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

My head is perfectly clean inside.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

I'm mentally agile.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

If you are feeling light, and you are not feeling tired in your body, you can obviously concentrate more.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.