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Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

- Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bourget, Paul

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Barzan, George

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Brookner, Anita

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Martin, Steve

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Cousins, Norman

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Montale, Eugenio