Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

- Brookner, Anita

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Barzan, George

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think then act safely.

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.