Thinking Quotes - Page 9

• The trouble is you think you have time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

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• You are what you think about.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Inspiration And Motivation

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• Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Soul, Literature

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.464, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Fractions, Wells

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• Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Believe, Men, Creation

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• The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

  Byron Katie

  Jobs, Ego, Mind

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, Writing, Men

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• No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Philosophy, Want, Dogma

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• Whatever I think of, I dismember.

  Jack Shadbolt

  Scott Watson, Jack Shadbolt (1990). “Jack Shadbolt”

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• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Time

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• Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Entrepreneur, Negativity

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Mar 15, 2013

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Creation, Habit, Methodical

  "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 61, 1928.

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• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Communication, Shapes, Way

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• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Integrity, Intelligence

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

  Rick Warren

  Humble, Humility, Purpose Driven Life

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.134, Zondervan

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• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

  Havelock Ellis

  Money, Poetry, Paper

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

  John Spence

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

  Boris Yeltsin

  Important, Unorthodox, Situation

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1990). “Against the grain: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

  John Spence

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Life Changing

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• She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Action, Failing, Command

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• Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

  John Spence

  Ugly, Better Person

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• Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Men, Atheism, Age

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• There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Iron, Heavy, Wells

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