Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Barzan, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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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]

Bible

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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