Unthinking Actions Quotes

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.