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Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.