Don't Think, Feel/Quotes

Lee: What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content. [Dramatic Pause] Try again.
[student attempts a kick]
Lee: I said emotional content -- not anger! Now try again, with meaning!
[student attempts one kick, then another]
Lee: That's it! How did it feel to you?
Student: Let me think....
Lee: [smacks student] Don't think! Feeeeeel. It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon.
[student looks up at Lee's finger and promptly gets smacked again]
Lee: Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory.

—Enter the Dragon

I'm gonna 'splain to you - remember that word, called 'splain, not explain, but I'mma 'splain to you what the Purdie Shuffle is all about...and I'm gonna 'splain to you, by playing it all.

Don't think, feel. Don't think, feel. If it feels nice just don't think twice.

—Neil Diamond, Don't Think, Feel

But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
That's the inner eye
So I'ma stick around with Russ and be a mentor

—Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels; that’s tingling enough for mortal man! to think’s audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

— Moby Dick