Cognitive Patterns Quotes

Your life is a reflection of how you think

Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

A woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. The habitual direction of her mind [is] to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups

Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.