David Shields Quotes

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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

Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?