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Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our 'friend.'
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
"People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things."
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!
We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.