David Bohm Quotes

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry, and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.

I work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

Thought is the thought of thought.

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.