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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Young, Eva

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

Confucius

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson