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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buddha

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Voltaire

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

Hugo, Victor

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Barzan, George

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Horton, Doug

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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