Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
Other voices on Thinking
- The problem of quality management is not what people don't know about it. The problem is what the think they do know.
- The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.
- The quality of your thought is the measure of your power.Robert CollierSourced
- The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading.
- The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.Bruce LeeCommonly attributed
- The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
- The struggle to write accurately is the struggle to think clearly.
- The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott FitzgeraldSourced
- The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- The travelled mind is the catholic mind, educated out of exclusiveness and egotism.
- The true and strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
- The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will become.
- The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
- The voice you believe will determine the future you experience
- The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
- The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.BonoCommonly attributed
- The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
- There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
- There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
- There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
- There is no fatality which forces the Old World towards new catastrophe. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. They have within themselves the power to become free at any moment.
- There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
- There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
- There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
- There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
- There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother.
- There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.Francis BaconCommonly attributed
- They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.