Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But this is like driving a car looking only at the rearview mirror — because data is only available about the past.
- Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
- Possession of anything begins in the mind.Bruce LeeCommonly attributed
- Prayer puts pressing problems into proper perspective.
- Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument: not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
- Productivity comes from making habits of doing. Creativity comes from breaking habits of thinking. Innovation comes from toggling between novel ideas and familiar routines.
- Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
- Quality questions create a quality life.
- Read less, study less, but think more. Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.
- Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.
- Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own.
- Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
- Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting.
- Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.
- Rule your mind or it will rule you.
- Rule your mind, which, if it is not your servant, is your master.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense.
- Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.
- Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
- Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
- Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
- Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think.
- The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping in, will be emptied by pumping out.
- The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine.
- The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head.
- The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker--it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
- The books which help you most are those which make you think the most.