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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs
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.
Steve Jobs
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Joan Rivers
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
Loretta Young
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
Mike Tyson
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
