Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.
My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.