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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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Brookner, Anita

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Butterworth, Eric

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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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

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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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.