Thinking Quotes - Page 2

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

To succeed in life you need five things – a burning desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, wisdom, incredible effort, and a commitment to never-ending improvement.

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

There is a cause/effect relationship between your investment in yourself and the future you have.

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

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

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!

You can’t excel in everything but you can be exceptional in a few things, so why not choose your life’s focus?

The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

Think before you eat.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

The truth is, that in all cases a certain number at least seems to be necessary to secure the benefits of free consultation and discussion, and to guard against too easy a combination for improper purposes; as, on the other hand, the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.

Focus is where you fail or succeed.

Those who live in gratitude start their day by setting their intentions and the direction they want to move in each day.

People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

The investment you make in others is transferred to everyone they influence long after you’re gone. Significance

To be successful you must be willing to work hard, work smart, work consistently, and most importantly do all three simultaneously over a long period of time.

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

Waiting is often a decision not to accept responsibility and is one of the reasons why some people never reach their potential.

The path to success lies in finding something you have a passion for, care deeply about, and are willing to apply all of your energy and focus to.

I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

What you do daily decides your destiny and (more importantly) your legacy.

Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.Some brains are battling and working and remembering and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over. It is to the lazy minds that I am now speaking, and from my own experience I imagine this includes nineteen people out of every twenty. I am one of that clan myself and always have been.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.

Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope

Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.

Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.

i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact,stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

Freud introduced the unconscious, which in effect dethroned man as the uncontested master of his own rational faculties. Instead , our lives and our decisions, our loves and our hates, are more often the result of forces working elsewhere than in our conscious mind, and we are the dupes of those forces, rather than their master. (...) Indeed, thinking, as Descartes conceived it, accounts for considerably less than half the story of our being in the world.

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.

Focus on your potential not your pain.

Most of us make decisions without thinking about their impact on our future.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.