Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.
- We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- We doubt whether a man ever brings his faculties to bear with their whole force on a subject, until he writes upon it.
- We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt
- We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is like us--he is thinking of himself.
- We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought.
- We laugh at people who still use Windows 95, yet we still cling to opinions that we formed in 1995.
- We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
- We lose vigour through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life.
- We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but we may surely guard against their taking root in us and bringing forth evil deeds.
- We must think loftily, and we must also work hard.
- We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
- We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
- We spend more time justifying why it can’t be done than trying to do it.
- We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
- Weeds are pulled up by the roots to clear the fields for the growing grain. Why should not mental weeds be pulled up by the roots also, and the mind cleared for growth?
- What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
- What I know for sure is you become what you believe.
- What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
- What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things.
- What we are depends entirely upon the images we hold before our mind’s eye.
- What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
- What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real.
- What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
- What you are aware of, you are in control of; what you are not aware of, is in control of you.
- What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
- What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
- Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
- Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
- Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
- Whatever you plant in your mind you will eventually manifest in the outside world.
- When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
- When everyone agrees with you, it's time to recheck your facts.
- When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.