Thoughts In Your Head Quotes

• Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

  Adyashanti

  Bird, Sound, Different

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• If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thinking, Aim, Ifs

  Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If - "

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• If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dream, Tired, Thinking

  "If - " st. 2 (1910)

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• But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

  Rakim

  Writing, Ciphers, Lasts

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

  Gillian Flynn

  Layers, Protection, Liquor

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• ...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, One Day, Alarms

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• I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

  Sebastian Barry

  Pain, Fronts, Knows

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Nice, Book, Brain

  "Cristina: A Diet for High Energy". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. February 19, 1997.

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• There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.

  Anne Enright

  Cancer, Mind, Littles

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• I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

  Josh Radnor

  Writing, Culture, Environment

  Source: collider.com

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• Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

  Brad Warner

  Expectations, Knows

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.137, New World Library

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• One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

  Alexander Hanson

  Important, One Day, Musician

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