Walter Scott Quotes

Maybe I think too much.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

I think too much.

I spend... too much time... in my own head.

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.