Thinking Quotes - Page 30

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

Consistency in action is an essential component of success.

Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.

A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.

Money, fame and personal possessions should never be your metric for measuring your passion.

The discovery of your life’s purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others.

They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change your daily thoughts, they can influence your habits! Beware of evil companions!

...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

To think at all requires a purpose, no matter how vague. The best thinking, however, requires a definite purpose, and the more definite this purpose the more definite will be our thinking. Therefore in taking up any special line of thought, we must first find just what our end or purpose is, and thus get clearly in mind what our problems are.

A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

There is nothing either ' good or bad ' but ' thinking ' makes it so. It is the "perception" that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.Erik pevernagie - ("Is that all there is ?")

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

Success is a product of inspiration, and if you can keep yourself inspired you can achieve any dream or goal

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.

Your thoughts carry you wherever you want to go. Weak thoughts don’t have the energy to carry you far!

I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad."I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died."My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing.Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen.I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all?And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did?I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person.And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Affirm yourself every day (especially after every setback) because no one else will do it for you.

Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.

Loosing is part of winning. You will have to walk through the shadow of failure to get to he winning side.

The more one thinks, the less one sees.

Turn on your dream machine and let your imagination do what it does best – create.

The way you think is what you are.

What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.

Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

Wake up each morning celebrating. Navigate through your day with a celebratory attitude and end each day in celebration.

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that your dreams, desires or goals are more important than fear.

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

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

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

The effective use of time is the best-kept secret of those who have created a successful life and continue to experience it every day.

Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

What you do consistently shapes your life.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

Big thoughts roam in big places. If you want to expand your thinking, expand your geography.

Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.

Think something better so that something better can happen!

Planning provides certainty.

The circumference of your breast may change; the shape of your hips may change; the size of your pants may also change. But your life never changes unless your thoughts, your plans and your actions change! Think big things!

Your decisions are influenced by your beliefs, philosophy, wisdom, environment, relationships, goals or dreams and state of mind.

Your dreams are the golden gate to a life of inspiration. The more you allow yourself to dream of your ideal future, the stronger your inspiration.

Routines and daily habits aren’t restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity.

Abundance is living the life you were born to experience.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.