Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
- Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Motivation is not a thinking word; it’s a feeling word.
- My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.
- Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
- Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
- No amount of thinking is going to fix the problem that is solved by doing.
- No matter how big your goals and dreams are, if you don’t change the way you think and act, you won’t see transformation.
- No matter what other people may think about your ability never allow yourself to doubt that you can do or become what you long to do or become.
- No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.
- No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
- None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
- Not a mother, nor a father, nor any other relative can do more for the well-being of one than a rightly-directed mind can.
- Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
- Nothing in life matters quite as much as you think it does while you are thinking about it.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
- Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so.
- Nothing will destroy the confidence of others so quickly as a doubt in our own minds.
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
- One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.
- One small positive thought can change your whole day.
- One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.
- Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.
- Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
- Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.
- Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.
- Our best light must be made life, and our best thought action.
- Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
- Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good.
- Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation of excellence.
- People are not disturbed by things but by the view they take of them.