Thinking Quotes - Page 5

Positive thoughts are the birthing ground for making your dreams, goals, and desires come true.

The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

Don’t always try to make big improvements – sometimes small incremental daily improvements are all you need.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by specialising, you produce a brain bulging out inordinately on one side, on the other cut flat down and mostly paralytic at that: and in short so long as I hold that the Creator has an idea of a man, so long shall I be sure that no uneven specialist realises it. The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.... but we may agree that, in reading, it is not quantity so much that tells, as quality and thoroughness of digestion.

In flight from intellectual heaviness, [he] arrives at intelligent weightlessness. Every notion is flipped this way and that; the answer to every question is yes and no; the proliferating examples from all the arts...overwhelm the observations that they are designed to illustrate; the general impression in one of uncontrollable articulateness. [He] does not think his thoughts; he convenes them. There is not a sign of struggle anywhere.

Small wins and major victories are important because they encourage and inspire you to keep your faith and stay the course even when everything around you seems to be falling apart.

Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world.

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.

My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

Decide on the future you want to experience, then find out the habits that will produce it and practice them daily.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

To live a successful life and make a difference in the world, you must continue to dream.

I am but a pawn on the chessboard of life!

Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words.

Don’t think about those who are not doing it. Focus on your dreams, goals and actions and make sure it is done well.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Hard work is the foundation of the abundant life, and sacrifice is needed to make it reality.

Inspiration is deeply personal. It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to inspire yourself.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.

Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you….

You don’t choose your purpose, you simply discover it.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.

To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development.

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

The answers to all problems or issues is hidden in a question.

Don’t celebrate your day because you get everything you want. Celebrate your day because you love and appreciate what you already have – the little things, the big things, the things that have come and gone, but most importantly those things yet to come.

alone, drinking coffee, listening to the playlist that include the songs that remember you with the best and bad moments of your life.what a hard emotional moment !!

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

Gratitude is the key to wealth and abundance, so learn to be grateful in all things.

Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!

Our generation thinks only about where they are going not how they are driving

I am a lifelong lover of form–content interplay, and this book is no exception. As with several of my previous books, I have had the chance to typeset it down to the finest level of detail, and my quest for visual elegance on each page has had countless repercussions on how I phrase my ideas. To some this may sound like the tail wagging the dog, but I think that attention to form improves anyone’s writing. I hope that reading this book not only is stimulating intellectually but also is a pleasant visual experience.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Sheep sheep are adorable.Human sheep, not so much.Think for yourself, for flock’s sake.

There’s no secret to success, but if there were one, it would be that your decisions create your success or lack of it and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

In times of difficulty, take time out and seek support and encouragement.

If I say, “I am weak,” I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, “I cannot,” “I’m not the type to,” “I am not able,” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.