Jim Harrison Quotes

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

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

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

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.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

You can't really think about more than one movie at a time. You're thinking about it consciously, and the subconscious is working too, and if you cram too much into your head, you don't get any ideas in the shower.

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.

I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.