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Thoughts and thinking

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

- May, Louise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

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

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

May, Louise

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Young, Eva

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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