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Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

- Holzer, Jenny

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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

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Confucius

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

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Arrington, Eva

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Voltaire

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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 labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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