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Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dryden, John

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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

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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 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

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

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