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Thoughts and thinking

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

- Martin, Steve

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Secker, Thomas

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Think then act safely.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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

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

Young, Eva

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

Butler, Samuel

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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