Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Butler, Samuel

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Barzan, George

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Braden, Vic

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

Butterworth, Eric