Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

- Aron, Elaine N.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.