Mental Navigation Quotes

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Thoughts are steered in different ways.