Thinking Quotes - Page 3

The human mind is the principal agent of creation. How we think is the prism for how we perceive reality.

Think of what you desire out of life.

Discipline begins where you are, and the key to sustaining the level of discipline you need lies in developing daily habits and routines which mirror the life you want to have.

I have just put this to see how much people can think, how much just follow what I say without thinking... (Just Simple Psychology)

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

You may spend much time and energy in preparation that you forget that the most important and essential step is action.

I just like the idea of looking back at my life and feeling like I made different choices than everyone else, you know? Most people are inherently boring if you really dig deep. They don't want much, they don't veer from their chosen path, and they're generally scared of change. I don't know, at least that's how my grandfather tells it. I don't want to be like fifty and realize that I was one of those people who didn't bother to think outside the box.

Sorry” we all say “Sorry” for the wrong things we say and do. But do we always think about the people we love dearly who we say hurtful things to? I don’t think so because if we had think about it sorry wouldn't have become such a popular word today. Sometimes we say so much and act immature as adult. We didn't take the time to realize how much hurt and pain we put that individual in we never took the time to think of the reaction, the feelings and the consequence that we might have to face if what we do turns out to be a matter of life and death.!!!

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.

Success is the joy found in the experiences unveiled in the pursuit and progressive realisation of a desired goal or dream.

A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.

The length of your shoe may change, the size of your pant may also change; but your life will never change until your mind changes!© more talks

Both positive and negative thinking can be formed in a child

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

Those who can confidently say they are living a life of passion are creating and contributing towardsmaking this world a better place.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

Exercising the Body is great, But exercising the Mind is the GREATEST.

You think too much.''I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. I think sometimes the Lord wants us to wonder. To ask. To share our uncertainties. He wants to give us those answers. Keep thinking. Keep wondering, Gideon.

Take notice of what thoughts you fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.

Invested wisely, time produces a good return. Invested poorly, it has little or no value and is therefore wasted.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

Circumstances, events or situations have no power except that which you give them.

Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about”― Bob Proctor

Hard work without purpose seldom leads to success.

Negative thinking is based on complexes

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

To put in the effort needed to create the life of your dreams, you first need to develop a burning desire.

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so".

Rekindle the glowing spirit for success in your heart. Refresh your mind with possibility thoughts and never give way for your passion to drink from the cup of tiredness. Be renewed in your thoughts every single day.

The outcomes in your life will depend on the quality of the frames you use to evaluate the events, the choices you make, and your decision not to be affected negatively by any events that occur.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration.

Always look into the future when deciding how to use your time in the present.

Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?

Investing in your personal development requires time, energy, and money, but the investment provides a great return.

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

You already have great gifts, talents and abilities, but you must find the environment where your potential can be developed and maximised

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.