Quotes About Thinking

And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between feeling and thinking. Most people are Odysseans.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Life is a state of mind.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

"No thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don't set limits on your life with your thinking.

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

I catch her eyes and she's smiling at me. It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.

found herself thinking how useful that would be, to have an automatic comforting device. The dog looked nice.

But the truth is she has good impulse control. That is why she isn't dead. Also why she became a writer instead of a heroin addict. She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […] On the face of it, the term "web platform" seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross?platform.

After a while the introvert develops strong extraversive needs; the man whose life has been governed exclusively by thinking craves in time the guide of feeling; the literal man searches eventually for ways of intuiting. So with the principal actors within the human character. Their rebellious understudies, if I may so designate them, are often of opposite persuasion.

also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects secondhand. But even secondhand stories affect the way people think. We have also observed in

This skewing of physicians' thinking leads to poor care. What is remarkable is not merely the consequences of a doctor's negative emotions. Despite research showing that most patients pickup on the physician's negativity, few of them understand its effect on their medical care and rarely change doctors because of it.