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Thoughts and thinking

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
Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Thoreau, Henry David

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Bacon, Francis

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
Thoreau, Henry David

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
Peale, Norman Vincent

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You become what you think about.
Nightingale, Earl

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What was once thought can never be unthought.
Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.
Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Horton, Doug

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Young, Eva

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Paine, Thomas

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.
Lee, Bruce

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

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Bristol, Claude M.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
Cousins, Norman

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

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
Pascal, Blaise

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Brookner, Anita

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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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