Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Braden, Vic

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Young, Eva

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

May, Louise

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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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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Rico, Gabriele Lusser