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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!

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Dan Millman
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
Diana Schneider
He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened.
Lao-Tzu
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
When every physical and mental resources is focused-one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Norman Vincent Peale
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Paula Brownlee
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
Edward de Bono
If your struggle with the conflicting parts of yourself is conscious, you are able to choose consciously the response that will create the karma that you desire. You will be able to bring to bear upon your decision an awareness of what lies behind each choice, and the consequences of each choice, and choose accordingly. When you enter into your decision-making dynamic consciously, you insert your will consciously into the creative cycle through which your soul evolves, and you enter consciously into your own evolution.
Gary Zukav
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
Audrey Giorgi
The brain’s capacity and desire to make or elicit patterns of meaning is one of the keys of brain-based learning. We never really understand something until we can create a model or metaphor derived from our unique personal world. Learning and memory are influenced by the sets, intentions and plans generated in the neocortex of the brain as well as by the information received from the immediate environment and from internal states, drives, and muscular responses. The reality we perceive, feel, see and hear is influenced by the constructive processes of the brain as well as by the cues that impinge upon it.
Merlin C. Wittrock
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Your mind is a very small, yet potent part of you. Control it, focus it and nourish it with positive thoughts that resonate with your authentic self.
--Brian Koslow
I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Eugene Ionesco
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler, educator
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
James Russell Lowell
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning writer
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination you never get there. You have to start someplace.
Robert Duvall, actor
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