John Webster Quotes

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.