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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Dryden, John

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.