Thinking Quotes - Page 8

• A man's life is what he thinks about all day long.

  T. B. Joshua

  Men, Long, Life Is

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• Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

  LeBron James

  Mean, Winning, Goal

  Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

  John Eliot

  Happiness, Success, Confidence

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.148, Diversion Books

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Imagination

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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• What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Matter, Changing Your Life

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• If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Positive, Expectations, Achievement

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Years

  "Daybooks".

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• There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Life, Education, Believe

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• Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Science, Able

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

  John Spence

  Mistake, People, Busy

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• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• Thought is action in rehearsal.

  William Zinsser

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Meditation

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• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Feelings, Ends

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.272, Penguin

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• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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• We are what we think.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Addiction, Mindfulness

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.4, Mango Media Inc.

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• The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lonely, Thoughtful, Mind

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• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Psychics, Innovation

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• If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

  Ben Shahn

  Doe, Painting, Position

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

  Ernest Renan

  Opinion, Fixed

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• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pain, Action, Finest

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.497, Random House

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• Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.

  Loral Langemeier

  Life, Motivational, Firsts

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