Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I have to laugh at myself.

Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.

After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.