Thoughts And Thinking

(296 votes)   Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940, American Writer

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(267 votes)   A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(223 votes)   Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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(218 votes)   It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Hans Christian Anderson
1805-1875, Danish Children Stories Writer

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(205 votes)   Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(202 votes)   Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Elaine N. Aron
American Psychologist, Novelist

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(200 votes)   You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Eva Arrington

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(199 votes)   Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Bryan Adams
1959-, Canadian-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(197 votes)   Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(183 votes)   Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(175 votes)   A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(174 votes)   "Nice guys may finish last, but at least they finish the race!"

Karl Lundgren
Student from North Bay, Ontario, Canada

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(171 votes)   Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(164 votes)   The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(151 votes)   Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian S. Huxley
1877-1975, British Writer, Biologist

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