Thinking Quotes - Page 14

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

Israelmore Ayivor

When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!

Israelmore Ayivor

Your brand is that ADHESIVE image you carry, that has the ability to STICK to the minds of people you meet physically or otherwise. Brand yourself positively because whoever gets to know you when passing by takes your image along!

Israelmore Ayivor

If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.

Israelmore Ayivor

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.

Criss Jami

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Criss Jami

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.

Shay Mizrahi

How you think matters. How you act matters more.

James Woosley

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model,” Ressler told me. “No matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Henry Ford

I always thought of men as being hard—maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn’t. I don’t know where he’d learned it, but it wasn’t something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn’t. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn’t know which one of us had it worse

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted.“After that, he said he needed to think.”“About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?”“He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.

Lisa Kleypas

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

Aneta Cruz

People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

Niall Ferguson

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

S.A. Tawks

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Agatha Christie

Humankind’s struggle against a hostile environment causes people throughout the ages to deploy their full armory of logic, training, strategy, imagination, inventiveness, and creativity. We are born with the natural ability to strategize. The most influential tool in humankind’s intellectual tool kit is the ability to regenerate a sense of unruffled alertness, to establish a poised stance that leads to intuitive discoveries generated by the conscious and unconscious mind constantly filtering a plethora of data, selecting critical facts, and producing elegant solutions to seemingly insoluble dilemmas.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Joanne Harris

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.

Jay Woodman

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

Oscar Wilde

You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma

Diet Eman

Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge into a comprehensive schema regulates our evolving self-identity. The precision of the human mind and the interplay between cognitive thinking and reactive emotions plays a central role in self-identity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.

Amit Kalantri

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

Abhijit Naskar

2.15 GRIEFAll the grief of every man,Remove himself – he only can,For this grief that be within,Be caused by his own thinking.[110]t- 2

Munindra Misra

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Keith Cooper

Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead

Tiffany Luard

If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.

Sanober Khan

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Rachel Klein

When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her.")

Erik Pevernagie

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.

Richard Mitchell

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

Maggie Stiefvater

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your head’s peril. The only safe thing to do is to find a way of getting your mind into his, wherein yours has room to expand and grow, and explore the worlds his contains.

Denys Turner

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

Donald Miller

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Stella Payton

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Stella Payton

Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.

A.J. Darkholme

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

Criss Jami

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

Linda Elder Richard Paul

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you….

James A. Murphy

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.

Shashank Rayal

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Elizabeth George

Education is not life planning, it is life.

Unarine Ramaru

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and doubtful. It is actually very hard to be positive. It takes faith to be positive and believe that good things are in our future.

Lisa Bedrick

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

Christmas Humphreys

By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

W.Y. Evans-Wentz

The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.

Brian P. Moran

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

Dodie Smith

Higher thoughts lead to a higher life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Jonah Lehrer

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Roger Von Oech

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