Thinking Quotes - Page 23

You’re a biological wonder without precedent.

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

You will always be the answer, when somebody asks me what I'm thinking about.

If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not to desire much except with the imagination; to suffer with haughtiness; to see clearly so as to write accurately; to know oneself through diplomacy and dissimulation; to become naturalized as a different person, with all the necessary documents; in short, to use all sensations but only on the inside, peeling them all down to God and then wrapping everything up again and putting it back in the shop window like the sales assistant I can see from here with the small tins of a new brand of shoe polish.

When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

Love everyone but chose your friends with caution.

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to "think for himself" and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

You don’t have to be a miracle worker to make things happen – you just have to be a believer and a doer.

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

Success is subjective, so define it for yourself. Don’t allow your life efforts to be dictated and judged according to other people’s standards.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness.

I don't think about how to live my life. I just live it.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

Think objectively.Think operationally.Think optimistically.Think outstandingly.

The key to triumph is the art of choosing your battles – staying focused on your vision and avoiding distraction.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought

What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour.

Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.

Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.

If we think about each other’s feelings, then we’re never alone.

Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

A vision is a promise of the future as seen in the present.

Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is.

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

If your mind can move mountainsand swallow gods,Why does it worry with helpless yesterdays and unborn tomorrows?If it can vomit starsand walk on split hairs,Why must it follow the samepath to despair?Everyone will tell you:'An orgasm here is just as good.

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.

When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn’t think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, ‘When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Fail faster, but (more importantly) fail intelligently.

Don’t live so casually that you fail to see how blessed you are.

Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

We do not perceive what is "out there," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the electrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by John Stuart Mill in 1865. He asked, "What is it we mean, or what is it which leads us to say, that the objects we perceive are external to us, and not a part of our own thoughts?" That remains, perhaps, the ultimate, unresolved perceptual puzzle.

Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires.