Yoko Ono Quotes

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

Don't over think too much.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

When you're relaxed, you are more decisive.

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

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

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?