Thinking Quotes - Page 12

• The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

  Euclid

  God, Nature, Math

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• The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Self, Long

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Men, I Can

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Despair

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

  Barbara De Angelis

  Real, Past, Meals

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• Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive Thinking, Negative, Results

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• I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

  Hans Arp

  Born, Process, Have Confidence

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• It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

  Matthew Arnold

  Important, Able, Great Things

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wrestling

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• Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Upset, Changing Your Life

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Acting

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• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Thomas Paine

  Reflection, Class, Two

  Thomas Paine (1826). “The age of reason”, p.36

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• Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Taught Us, Looks

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• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Witty

  1950 Out of My LaterYears.

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Opportunity, Doors

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

  Norman Cousins

  Teaching, Learning, Given

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• We become what we think about most.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Success, Motivational Business, Daily Motivation

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• What luck for rulers that men do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Work, School, Stupid People

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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Brenda Ueland

  People, Tragedy, Dry

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

  Robert Henri

  School, Drawing, Looks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Writing, Interesting

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• You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Positive, Power Of Thought, Our Thoughts

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• By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

  Robert Genn

  Careers, Has Beens, Buddy

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

  Robert Collier

  Incurable Disease, Optimist, Can Do

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin

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