Stephen King Quotes

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In Quebec, people are moved too often by passion and too little by intelligence.

Don't over think too much.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

People in this world are not often logical.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

It's not hard for me to figure out who I like or who my friends are. I trust my energy meter, but I'm also not afraid to let people in who might hurt me.

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.