Quotes About Mindlessness

#1. Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Ellen Langer

#2. Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Ayn Rand

#3. Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#4. I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

Paula Fox

#5. In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices.

Luis E. Navia

#6. Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

Roger Ebert

#7. In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. It's important to be aware of how multitasking can stimulate us into mindlessness, giving the illusion of productivity while stealing our focus and harming performance. "When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit," is ancient wisdom.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#10. Minimalism is close to mediocrity and mindlessness, a way for the ungifted to have a literary career, and for readers who really hate literature to pretend to be reading something serious.

Paul West

#11. The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#12. When tired, when bored, when happy, when unhappy, when night, when day, when cold, when hot, when nervous, when relaxed you always need music to fly into another dimension, the Dimension of Mindlessness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Ellen Langer

#14. It was as if they could read each other's minds. No, not minds: each other's mindlessness.

Margaret Atwood

#15. It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article's niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems.

Kingsley Amis

#16. To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

#17. One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

John Ortberg

#18. Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

Joel Kinnaman

#19. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell

#21. People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Jess C. Scott

#22. They say, tell me what you've read and I'll tell you who you are.

Anton Chekhov

#23. Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.

David Amerland

#24. You don't need to like me to fuck me," he said. "You just need to like fucking me." He stepped closer, letting his forehead touch mine. "And from the way you still come every time we meet up, it's clear you still like that.

Whitney G.

#25. Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins.

Vicki Covington

#26. I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

Cat Stevens

#27. They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

Dejan Stojanovic

#28. Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Tony Kushner

#29. Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

Dani Shapiro

#30. Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

Austin O'Malley

#31. You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Meg White

#32. Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Ovid

#33. A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.
[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Nelson Mandela

#34. People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#35. I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

Sang H. Kim