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Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

- Chopra, Deepak

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Buddha

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De