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Thoughts and thinking

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

- May, Louise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Think then act safely.

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, 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.