Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

- Duranty, Walter

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brookner, Anita

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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 how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha