“A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 519 of 4756
“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”
“The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.”
“If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.”
“One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.”
“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”
“The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.”
“I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.”
“I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.”
“I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."... A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.”
“The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.”
“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
“Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.”
“There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.”
“Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.”
“I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.”
“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”
“Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”
“I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.”
“He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.”