Thinking Quotes - Page 25

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Working hard alone without being smart and consistent won’t lead to success.

Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking “I cannot , but I must

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.

A benchmarking mind is an “interpreter” mind which can bridge the gaps.

If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.

Dreams are maps to the future.

You can actually possess all your wishes.

Wisdom allows you to decide how best to apply yourself to get the most return on your time and energy invested.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

By bringing the future into the present, you can do something about it usually before it gets too late.

I think we spend more time thinking of things to deal with than just letting them go. When we quiet our minds, that’s true freedom.

But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other.

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

I agree and admit that thinking and planning are free. Nobody charges you for thinking and you pay no one to make plans. It's your decision!

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking.

In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

A day is a collection of moments in the same way that life is a collection of experiences.

A peaceful mind is not a matter of doing, but of being.

The key to your success or failure lies in your daily habits.

Success is built on what you are able to see and create with your mind.

Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity. "The ideas Earthlings held didn't matter for hundreds of thousands of years, since they couldn't do much about them anyway. Ideas might as well be badges as anything."They even had a saying about the futility of ideas: 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' "And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense or decency or self-preservation, but for friendliness."Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed. Homicidal beggars could ride.

Through reframing, you can eliminate all limiting experiences from your life.

Humility makes you reach out to others for guidance.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.

Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

...our ability to achieve our dreams and fulfill our destiny is directly influenced by our thinking. How we think determines our responses, our ability to relate to others, our level of commitment, our priorities, and the dreams we will pursue.

The difference between those who achieve their dreams and those who don’t is in their ability to see not only with their eyes but also their minds.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity to think, human beings are suspects by definition, and this suspicion cannot be diverted by exemplary behavior, for the human capacity to think is also a capacity to change one's mind.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because it has a form - it has a limited reach. Whereas the thought called "freedom" is free as an act of thought. It's so free that even to its thinker it seems to have no author.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured right from the start.

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say ‘It is,’ you are refusing to say ‘I am.’ By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’- he is declaring: ‘Who am I to live?

Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

Start every day by making a list of all the experiences you will fill your day with and make an effort.

The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Engage your mind in the bliss of wonder.

If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts.

See each day as an investment in the future and be willing to do today what you wish to experience in the future.