Deep Thought Quotes - Page 5

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.