The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
