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Thoughts and thinking

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Young, Eva

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Horton, Doug

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred