Wolfgang Ketterle Quotes

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

I run hills anytime I really have to think.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running - it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.