Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Horton, Doug

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brookner, Anita

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

May, Louise

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

Young, Eva

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Buddha