George Carlin Quotes

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.