Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Winfrey, Oprah

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Frost, Robert

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

Barzan, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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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.

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.