Thinking Quotes - Page 20

• When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

  Gene Simmons

  Important, Enough, Delusional

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Learning, Dresses

  Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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  You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• The past has no power over the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Twitter post from Jun 2, 2014

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• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

  Brian Johnson

  Brain, Important, Ingredients

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• I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.

  Caitlin Lowe

  Inspirational, Softball, Wall

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• I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

  George Takei

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Pain, Errors, Results

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.49, Penguin

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• When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

  Rumi

  Positive, Islamic, I Hate You

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

  Marlo Thomas

  Important, Think Big, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

  Valerie Harper

  Dying

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

  W. H. Auden

  Mystical Experiences, Ego, Doe

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 266), 1972.

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• I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

  W. H. Auden

  Civilization, Firsts, Conversation

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• Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  God, Men, Religion

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• You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.

  Harvey Penick

  Swings, One Day, Diaries

  Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

  Allan McNish

  Mirrors, Texting, Keyboards

  "Race Car Driver Allan McNish Talks About Being Scared, Texting and Taking the Bus". Interview with Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• . . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Men, Wish, World

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• All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Differences, Stupidity

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• I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.

  Allan McNish

  Weekend, Race, People

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• Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Spring, Sadness, Imagination

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