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Thoughts and thinking

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Butler, Samuel

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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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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

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Patton, George S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

May, Louise

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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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Think then act safely.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent