Thoughts Quotes
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s or woman’s thoughts and attitudes.
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To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
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Be the witness of your thoughts.
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My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.
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One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts.
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At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
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Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.
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Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
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Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.
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When you try to teach somebody else, you have to be able to articulate your thoughts, and that just makes you understand so much more what you're doing.
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Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting...But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.
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My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
