Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David