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Thoughts and thinking

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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

Huxley, Aldous

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dryden, John

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Buddha

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barzan, George

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von