Srikumar Rao Quotes

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

I have no inner monologue.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Change isn't easy…. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, …. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.