cognitive behavior Quotes

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

What you do comes from what you think.

I am what I feel and think and do.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

Watch your thoughts. They turn into words, then turn into actions.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Thought rules mankind.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.