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Thoughts and thinking

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas 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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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

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Horton, Doug

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Buddha

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Think then act safely.

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, 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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Twain, Mark

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

Patton, George S.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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