Toxic Thinking Quotes

When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking. ~ John Mayer

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special. ~ Mike Tyson

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves. ~ Nhat Hanh

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it. ~ Tina Fey

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. ~ Edward Hirsch

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades. ~ Fred Savage

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair. ~ Cindy Sherman

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects. ~ Rachel Weisz

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life. ~ Maeve Binchy

To me faith means not worrying ~ John Dewey

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time. ~ Alexander Gustafsson

I think it's important for fans to be involved in all aspects of the game. We saw the league certainly make that move towards involving fans with pro bowl voting, I'm not sure that fan voting will ever be a part of the Hall of Fame, but it is always interesting to get the perspective of the fans. ~ Howie Long

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. ~ William Gibson

In my operational days, there were three ways of thinking about things. There were things you knew. Then there were things you knew you didn't know. And then there were the things you didn't know that you didn't know." "No wonder we keep having so many international crises," she says, "if you lot are running around talking like that. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment. ~ George W. Bush

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. ~ George McGovern

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. ~ Sylvia Plath

Truth always prevails, as it packs the mightiest punch of them all! ~ Dee Waldeck

I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath
a rank
a throne
a grave
The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon. ~ Winthrop Mackworth Praed

It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about. ~ Loren Eiseley

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do. ~ Gloria Estefan

It is no accident that narcissists and altruists often have a magnetic attraction to one another. Can you see how perfect the fit is? The altruistic feels the need to selflessly serve others and this is just what the narcissist wants. Narcissists want to be worshipped and gratified in every way possible, and this is just what altruists offer, thinking it demonstrates their moral virtue. ~ Ellen Kenner

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure ... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. ~ George W. Crane

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. ~ Dave Willis

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure. ~ Brian Lindstrom

I don't think there should be apps specific to a tablet ... if someone makes an ICS app it's going to run on phones and it's going to run on tablets. ~ Andy Rubin

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you ... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things ... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. ~ Joel Osteen

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. ~ Will McDonough

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. ~ Colin Powell

I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated. ~ Sheena Iyengar

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about. ~ Steven Wright

Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going. ~ Kcat Yarza

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon