T Quotes
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“Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.”
Source: Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
“Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.”
“Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.”
“Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.”
“Thinking happens by itself. The thing that is thinking that it is it that is thinking is a product of thinking.”
“Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.”
“Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.”
“Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.”
“Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.”
“Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.”
Source: North and South
“Thinking he was so goddamned pretty was bad enough. I didn't want to actually like the guy. The way he smiled at me was making it hard, though.”
Source: (Not Quite) The Same Old Song
“Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.”
“Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
“Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.”
“Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that the thinking particular to poetry is essential to my life. I need to think, to explore, to question, in poetry. Without that feeling, I am, in some ultimate way, lost.”
“Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.”
“Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.”
“Thinking in white space is as important as mindfulness while working.”
Source: Quantraz
“Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.”
“Thinking incomplete knowledge of the industry presents a fuller picture.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.”
“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”
Source: Illuminations
“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”
“Thinking is a defense mechanism. Not all the time, of course, but when in situations where strong emotions are involved, throwing yourself into your head is a way to keep yourself out of your feelings and out of your body. Your feelings need to pass through your body, you need to feel them run through your body in order to let go of anything. But that's an excruciating experience and we keep on trying to protect ourselves from it by running into our heads, being analytical, being logical, and doing everything to stay in our brains. This has been my own number one defense mechanism, the wall that I know I need to tear down a little more each day.”
“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of grief, sadness, and misery or positively transform our patterns of thinking in order to dwell in a world of joy, gratitude, and wonder. Without thoughtful action we are inert beings cast amongst the living dead.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!”
“Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.”
Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.”
Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution”
“Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.”
“Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.”
“Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.”
“Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Thinking is an exercise and worrying is a disease.”
“thinking is an exercise to which far too few brains are accustomed”
Source: First Lensman
“Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.”
“Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.”
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed swatches on the surface of the brain. The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. We evolved from apes, but that does not mean we have the same minds as apes. And the ultimate goal of natural selection is to propagate genes, but that does not mean that the ultimate goal of people is to propagate genes.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment”
Source: On the Soul
“Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.”
Source: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
“Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”