Repetitive Thinking Quotes

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

I can't stop thinking like this.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you're depressed or down, when it's become like a hamster on a wheel - it's very difficult to break.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.