Quotes Tagged "thinking"

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.