Thinking Quotes - Page 10

• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Communication, Shapes, Way

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• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Sleep, Night

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• I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.

  Amber Benson

  Character, Kids, Gay

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• People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Pleasure, Masochistic

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• I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Fiction, Happened

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Body

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I think about my work every minute of the day.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Architecture, Minutes

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Few minds wear out; more rust out.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Curiosity, Mind, Rust

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• The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspiration, Wrestling, Winning

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• you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

  Stephen King

  Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Positive, World, Our Thoughts

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• Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

  Luther Burbank

  People, World, Torture

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• I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

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• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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• So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Believe, Belief

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• Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dismissal, Momentary

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

  Arthur Koestler

  Insanity, Insane

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• People are more what they hide than what they show.

  John Spence

  People, Shows

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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Positive, Travel

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Real, Eye, Substance

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.33, e-artnow

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• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  Xunzi

  Study, Moments, Found

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• I didn't think; I experimented.

  Anthony Burgess

  Science, Action

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• Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

  Neil Young

  Song, Worst, Happens

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• You can do anything you think you can.

  Christopher Reeve

  Perseverance, Persevere, Incurable Disease

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