Nora Roberts Quotes

I'll never look too far ahead.

When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.

Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.

Let's take everything just as it is.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.

I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think "Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now". So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.