Thinking Quotes
I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.
No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.
Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.
Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?
To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.
Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.