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Thoughts and thinking

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

- Gardner, George

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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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Young, Eva

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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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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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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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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

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Braden, Vic

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]