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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Stevens, Wallace

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Stevens, Wallace

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Chapman, John Jay

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As you think, so shall you become.