Thinking Quotes - Page 4

The brain is to mind as the eye is to sight.

Success may create excitement, but only significance leads to fulfilment.

Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Just think about this: haven’t we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body’s natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side. What are we all really doing? We are moving from pillar to post, forward and backward on theories. We are all as confused as the next person. And unfortunately, we are all going to leave this world with barely being able to decipher much.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

True thinking brings a good life!

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Never ever care what people think about you, but what kind of energy you create in them matters the most. So act sensibly!

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

Our thinking makes our life

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.

My dream is to keep dreaming!

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be.

What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?

Don’t waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big.

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

Life is beautiful but it’s also brief. It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how well you live.

If your actions are combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.

We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking

Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.

My Opinion Is Just Opinion

Feed your mind with thoughts that inspire, motivate, encourage, empower, educate and instruct you by deliberately choosing the information you allow into your world through sight, sound and people.

Those who succeed in life are those who are unashamed to ask silly questions.

God gave us imaginations because that’s one of the ways we can visit the future! Thoughts are transport media!

One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

The morning sky is a thought of the stars.

A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly into the inadequate symbols of words, inadequate because common to disparate situations - admitted to be inadequate for vast regions of expression, since for them there were the parallel languages of music and painting. Words were not called for in many or indeed most forms of thought: Mozart certainly thought in terms of music. He himself at this moment was thinking in terms of scent.

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

shave you mind with occam's razor everyday

The goal is to move the thinking that we do every day to the feeling that we often ignore and don't pay attention to.

Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participating. The egg of the world revolution was indeed incubated in meetings very like tutorial classes. Our dramatic and romantic dispositions would have it otherwise, but that was the course reality chose to take. It was begotten of a sentence, it was fostered in talk. In the beginning was the Word. There is no strong, silent man in the history of the world renascence."I've got so little to say," said Dreed, and he was the nearest approach to speechlessness in the Group."All the more reason for coming to listen," said Rud.They had to understand each other, Bodisham urged, and to keep on understanding each other. "You have to talk a movement into being," he said, "and you have to keep it alert by talk. You have to write and keep on writing memoranda on the different expressions of our fundamental ideas, as fact challenges them. It is laborious but absolutelynecessary."So long as Lenin lived, Bodisham argued, he wrote and talked and explained, and when he died progress in Russia turned its face to the wall. The hope went out of the Russian experiment. "You have to play the role of Lenin in our movement," said Bodisham. The Common-sense Party had to keep alive mentally even if it risked serious internal conflicts. Rigidity was a sign of death. Fixed creeds were the coffins of belief.

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.

By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware of a young man sitting just behind me and to the left. I had noticed him when he first entered the mediation hall, and had felt a flash of annoyance at the time: something about him, especially his beard, had struck me as too calculatedly dishevelled, as if he were trying to make a statement. Now his audible breathing was starting to irritate me, too. It seemed studied, unnatural, somehow theatrical. My irritation slowly intensified - a reaction that struck me as entirely reasonable and proportionate at the time. It was all beginning to feel like a personal attack. How much contempt must the bearded meditator have for me, I seethed silently, deliberately to decide to ruin the serenity of my meditation by behaving so obnoxiously? Experienced retreat-goers, it turns out, have a term for this phenomenon. The call it 'vipassana vendetta'. In the stillness tiny irritations become magnified into full-blown hate campaigns; the mind is so conditioned to attaching to storylines that it seizes upon whatever's available. Being on retreat had temporarily separated me from all the real causes of distress in my life, and so, apparently, I was inventing new ones. As I shuffled to my narrow bed that evening, I was still smarting about the loud-breathing man. I did let go of the vendetta eventually - but only because I'd fallen into an exhausted and dreamless sleep

Every day is worthy of celebration because every day is a present you receive by grace.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

Develop a vocabulary of uplifting and empowering words for times of uncertainty and upheaval.

Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality.

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.

You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

dare greatly, think great.

A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Expand your vision and widen your reasoning

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.