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Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition)

Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effects on others. Think about your thinking!

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
Richard Bolles
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
Bertrand Russell
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
Lao Tsu
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser
Everything we do consciously remains for us.
Gurdjieff and Ouspinsky
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself
Plato
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Human thought is a process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Daniel Webster
Keep in mind always the present your are constructing. It should be the future you want.
Alice Walker
If the head is ready, the body will follow.
Alexander Popov
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
John Kao
I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.
Al Hirschfield
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
Samuel Goldwyn
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.
May Sarton
The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
Sarah J. Hale
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?
Rob Bremer
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