Thinking Quotes - Page 173

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.

Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful?

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.