Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Stevens, Wallace

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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 men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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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

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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 who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Bourget, Paul

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore