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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

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Barzan, George

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Confucius

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.