Thinking Quotes - Page 20

Like the rudder or anchor on a ship, your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back and keep you from achieving them.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased in favor of our own viewpoint, it is important to keep the standard of fairness at the forefront of our thinking. This is especially important when the situation may call on us to see things we don't want to see, or give something up that we want to hold onto.

The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance.

Passion ignites your innate desire to create, produce, give and grow.

Success can’t be achieved without personal development and constantly improving yourself.

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual’s own intellectual operations, from the belief in the ‘omnipotence of thoughts’, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.

Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind.

Focus is central to everything you do, and where your focus goes, energy flows

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.

It isn’t what you don’t know that’s the problem. It is what you’re unwilling to ask.

Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Like any formula, success has parts and therefore it is expressed in three ways – achievement (a science), fulfilment (an art) and lifestyle (an act). All three have to be present for the formula to be complete.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

If your dream is accepted by all, you don’t have a big enough dream. Big dreams challenge the status quo.

The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.

Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

Thought is born of failure.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

You can't wear your brain out by overusing it.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back from achieving them. Look closely at your daily habits and you can predict your future with accuracy.

The first step may be the hardest, but once you take action you create motion, which in turn builds momentum.

You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Positive thinkers look for good in every situation. In times of difficulty, the can find many opportunities.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

Success comes from closing the gap between who you are today and your ultimate potential.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Wisdom isn’t expensive, but ignorance is.

All battles are not created equal; a few offer good rewards and are worthy of your attention but most are a waste of your time, energy and focus.

It's matter of choice and matter of thinking.

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them.

He who thinks little errs much…

A victorious life is as a result of a correct way of thinking

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Thinking is so easy and natural, you have to do it when you're on a rock, in the middle of the ocean.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

The mind is masterpiece.

Sight is seeing what's there, vision is seeing what's possible

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

How you think matters. How you act matters more.