Always think backwards before moving forwards

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

I forgot what I was going to think.

When they are all thinking alike, they aren’t thinking at all.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, “Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?” The reason I pay...

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

.in biggest silence, you hear loudest voices..

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake, and they don’t Think.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you’re gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control...

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

Thinking you’ve had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you’ve been run over by a bus. Trust me – you know when you’ve got depression.

Positive thinking will get rid of the headaches of life from your mind

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the ’90s in general – growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day...

I like Saturdays. They are my best thinking days. It is my day to try to find that one special thought that turns into an idea that I remember forever and becomes a part of...

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?

Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one’s own feelings or interests....

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn’t follow a continuous path.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15....

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I’ve made movies all over the world… I’ve been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London – I’ve been in all these cities, shooting away in the...

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn’t mean that the clouds part and I see God. That’s a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I remember thinking, ‘Downward dog’ is so not a resting pose!’ Now it actually can be.

philosophes qui ont pu autrefois se soustraire de l’empire de la fortune, et, malgré les douleurs et la pauvreté, disputer de la félicité avec leurs dieux. Car s’occupant sans cesse à considérer les bornes qui...

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: ‘know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)…