Boots Riley Quotes

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

You mainly feel the way you think.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I hadn’t thought of that.

Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.

Feeling alone is what most likely sparked this way of thinking. Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together - is what has helped evolve my way of thinking about it. Life feels less lonely, and that's a big obstacle to overcome.

Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter."

The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

I really can't tell other people how to live their life or how to approach different things. What I can tell them - and I truly believe this, I don't think it's being naïve and I don't think it's being in denial - I really believe that the way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.