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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

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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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Confucius

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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