Buzz Aldrin Quotes

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.