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Thoughts and thinking

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

- Sutra, Diamond

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Voltaire

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Butler, Samuel

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.