Thinking Quotes - Page 16

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick!

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.

There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.