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Thoughts and thinking

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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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

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Braden, Vic

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.