Billy Squier Quotes

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.