Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Taylor, Susan

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Braden, Vic

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Voltaire

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

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

Fredrich

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Patton, George S.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Young, Eva

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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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Satta, Salvatore

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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.

Gardner, George

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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

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo