John Grisham Quotes

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

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

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.

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

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.

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.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

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.

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

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

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

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

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

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.