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Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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.

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fredrich

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brookner, Anita

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Buddha

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Think then act safely.

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

Proverb, Italian