Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- He who thinks little, errs much.
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
- I always thought that if you want to be the best, you have to work harder than everyone else.
- I believe that if you think small, you'll stay small.
- I believe that the mind can be profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
- I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
- I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
- I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.Woodrow WilsonSourced
- I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
- I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
- I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
- Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it is simply a brutality.
- Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
- Ideas without action are useless.
- If a man really has an idea he can communicate it; and if he has a clear one, he will communicate it clearly.
- If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- If it is the repetition of thought, the cells holding that thought are exercised and trained, and finally they act automatically, and repeated thought becomes habit, and exercised habit becomes character--and character is the man.
- If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
- If the cultivation of the understanding consists in one thing more than in another, it is surely in learning the grounds of one’s own opinions.
- If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
- If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- If you are too busy to think then you are too busy.Greg McKeownCommonly attributed
- If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly, nothing can get in your way.
- If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.
- If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.
- If you don’t control what you think, you cannot control what you do.
- If you don't understand the cause of the problem — your solution will become part of it.
- If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
- If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don’t set limits on your life with your thinking.
- If you visualize your worries and your fears, you will make them real.