My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.
Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.
I don't have a complex mind.
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.
i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.
I don't like to think too far ahead.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.
The public mind is a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.
I have a simple, simple brain.
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.
