Mind Thinking Quotes

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

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.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

What you think you become.

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If you think you can - you can!

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own 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.

If you think you can't, you're right.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.