Thinking Quotes - Page 5

• Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

  George Ross Kirkpatrick

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

  Neil Gaiman

  Relationship, Break Up, Novelists

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• To think is to differ.

  Clarence Darrow

  Education, Teacher, Individuality

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• For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

  Luther Burbank

  Prejudice, Rearranging, Thoughts And Thinking

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• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

  Chuck Jones

  Long, Willingness, Inevitability

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• Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  John Dewey

  Progress, World, Originality

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• It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Time

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• You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Want, Blame

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  Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year". Book by Norman Vincent Peale. Entry for April 13, 1993.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.377, Harvard University Press

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• Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

  John Spence

  People, Money Can't Buy Happiness, Poor

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• You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

  John Spence

  Refuse

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• A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lawyer, Freethinker

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.468

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

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• When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Live Your Life, Might

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• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Change, Bad Ass

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Creative, Enemy

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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