Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

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

Buddha

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

Arrington, Eva

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

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.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Braden, Vic

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

Patton, George S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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 is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Frost, Robert

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Frye, Northrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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