Conflicting Thoughts Quotes

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

The public is schizophrenic.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

I don't even agree with myself at times.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

Sometimes I... No, I don't.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!