Mental Preoccupation Quotes

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

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

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

I'm always thinking about my work, always thinking about where it's taking me.

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.