Selective Thinking Quotes

#1. In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Dwelling on your problems doesn't fix them; it just makes you an expert at them.

Tommy Newberry

#3. If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

Zig Ziglar

#4. When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.

Barbara Rose

#5. Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so ...

Elizabeth Montagu

#6. The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

A.J. Darkholme

#7. You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.

Tommy Newberry

#8. If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

Tommy Newberry

#9. Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Charles Baudelaire

#10. One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.

Patricia Highsmith

#11. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

Moutasem Algharati

#12. The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Charles Hugh Smith

#13. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.

Mandy Hale

#14. Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Fay Weldon

#15. The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.

Asaram

#16. The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

H. P. Blavatsky

#17. I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

Jason Lee

#18. If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.

Tommy Newberry

#19. I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Richard Gere

#20. I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Erica Jong