Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, 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 must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy