Thought Shaping Quotes

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

The mind is what the mind is fed.