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Thoughts and thinking

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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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.

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

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Young, Eva

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