Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.

The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?