Jim Davis Quotes

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.