Deep Thought Quotes - Page 19

• True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

  James Arthur Ray

  Humor, Gone, Wealth

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Humor, Focus, Mind

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• Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

  Christopher McCandless

  Mean, Humor, Circumstances

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• The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Humor, Men

  Aristotle (2015). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• If you want to feel good, be rational.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Feel Good, Want

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• When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Humor, Secret

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• Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

  Twyla Tharp

  Humor, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humor, Men

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Giving Up, Humor, Purpose

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Know Yourself, Ramifications

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• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Light, Profound, Inquiry

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• You will find God in the church of your choice.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Church

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

  David White

  Order, Goal, Needs

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• If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Storm, Together, Way

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• The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Mind, Devil, Speak

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• To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

  Christopher Langan

  Thinking, Trivia

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• The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

  Abu Nu`aym

  Hypocrite, Doe, Lessons

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• To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Party, Doors, Talking

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Worthwhile, Hard

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• Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Made

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23), 1864.

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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, He Man, Dare

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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• For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Answers

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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