Thinking Quotes - Page 17

You either LIVE or you THINK!

Good mentors and coaches will help you reach your destination faster than you can by yourself.

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called ‘Your Life’ and you can change the play anytime.

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Whatever happens in your life, make a promise to yourself that you will never give up your ability to dream.

There are moments in your life that you'll never forget. Some good, some bad, some life-changing. However, I never thought it was possible to fall in love with a single moment. Especially a moment with a person who's caused you so much pain. Especially when the moment puts you in your place for being a monumental asshole. -Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~

Night doesn’t fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Every day is an opportunity to create good memories for yourself and others.

Change your perspective and you can change your life.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our thinking.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

You can do anything if you can combine your passion with focus, effort and persistence.

You need to manage your expectations. You'll live longer.

If you see success as a race, then you will start eagerly with enthusiasm and passion with the hope of finishing quickly but there is much more to your success journey than your duration and speed.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Your perspective changes relative to the frame through which you see things.

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

As you think so you act.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, “I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Decisions create success, and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.

Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can't go to my school cause they're not smart enough." I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. "You think I'm dumb?" "No," she whispers hard, like she means it so much. She look sorry she said it. "What that tell you about Miss Taylor, then?" She blink, like she listening good. "Means Miss Taylor ain't right all the time," I say. She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.

.the worse experience, the better teacher..

Goals help you look towards the future with anticipation and excitement rather than with anxiety, and when clearly defined and broken into smaller steps, they enable you pay the price needed to achieve your dreams.

Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world through the lenses of our eyes like the pilots of people-shaped spacecraft. We are affected constantly by what's going on around us. Whether our flexibility is based in neuroplasticity or in less dramatic aspects of the brain, we have to start acknowledging that we are mutable, persuadable and vulnerable to clever distortions, and that very often what we want to be is a matter of constant effort rather than attaining a given state and then forgetting about it. Being human isn't like hanging your hat on a hook and leaving it there, it's like walking in a high wind: you have to keep paying attention. You have to be engaged with the world.

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Be great, dwell on great thoughts.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

Your success is hidden in the quality of your decisions and the consistency of your actions.

Inspiration does not come genetically or automatically. Neither is it continuously present.

Planning eliminates urgency by allowing you to bring your future into the present.

You create the life you wish by your thoughts, speech and actions.

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man’s instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man who desires to live.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

My thoughts are really all I think about.

You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.

The book which I read by Stephen Hand, Freedy VS Jason, was incrediable. I also check out and the book Zodiac, again an incrediable story. The Stand by Stephen King was again on incrediable story, a long book and film, but incrediable!Theory of Everything where it put it me I still can't believe, it was unique story, I had chance to see who is Stephen Hawking really!

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict ‘It is.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

You can only build on success, but to do this you have to be willing to let go of your last success and use it as a stepping stone for your next achievement.

You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored if it doesn't. Whatever has to drop into the plate must pass through your head!

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Through dreams, your ideas and ideals are brought to reality, so learn to dream of the future you wish to experience.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.