Thinking Quotes - Page 11

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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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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• For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.

  Milford Zornes

  Memories, Years, Skills

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Freedom, Fear, Self

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• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Music, Witty

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

  Laozi

  Simple, Dwelling, Tao Te Ching

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Fingers

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• A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brain, Legs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.212, Courier Corporation

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mind, Action, Capacity

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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• What you think means more than anything else in your life.

  George Matthew Adams

  Mean

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• Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

  John Spence

  Attitude, Nice, Special

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• Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

  John Spence

  Love You, Ideas, People

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• If you can think it, you can do it

  Dionne Warwick

  Can Do, Ifs, You Can Do It

  Dionne Warwick, David Freeman Wooley (2011). “My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Loss, Years, Way Forward

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, People, Moral

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, People

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• By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Men, Avalon, World

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

  Kate Morton

  Trying

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

  Antonio Machado

  Inspirational, Believe, Veils

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes I think and other times I am.

  Paul Valery

  Sometimes, Thoughts And Thinking

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• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Destiny, Purpose

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• Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Power, Brain, Use

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Learning

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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