Tinta Ilmuwan Menurut Cropley (1992:231) seseorang tidak akan menjadi pelukis, penyajak atau pemuzik dengan hanya

a membaca buku tentang lukisan, sajak atau muzik. Begitu juga dengan mencalit warna ke atas kanvas, membentuk sajak yang tidak teratur atau cetuskan nota muzik, tidak menjadikan seseorang itu artis kecuali dua perkara iaitu: potensi kreatif dan pendidikan yang menekankan kreativiti". Minda yang kerdil umpama pokok yang kerdil.. Ia tidak boleh berbuah dan berbungaProf. Diraja Ungku Aziz Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson What we think, we become. Buddha A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel A real decision is measured by the fact that youve taken a new action. If theres no action, you havent truly decided. Tony Robbins And were seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are. Neale Donald Walsch Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. John Maxwell At a certain age some peoples minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. William Lyon Phelps Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light wont come in. Alan Alda Belief is when someone else does the thinking. Buckminster Fuller Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. Bruce Calvert Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz Dont be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Arthur Miller Dont think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. Its self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cant try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. Niels Bohr Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Khalil Gibran Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes Few minds wear out; more rust out. Christian N. Bovee

 Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for
myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. Earl Nightingale Humility is not thinking less of yourself, its thinking of yourself less. Rick Warren I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. Franklin D. Roosevelt I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think. Eric Butterworth I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. Tony Robbins I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youths follies thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. David Herbert Lawrence I dont pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke I dont think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. Bob Dylan I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do. Victoria Principal I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. Im not linear in thinking, Im not very logical. Imelda Marcos I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me shapes and ideas so near to me so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasnt occurred to me to put them down. Georgia OKeeffe I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way I hope it never will. Arnold Schwarzenegger I like thinking big. If youre going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. James Douglas I like what the future holds. I dont like thinking about the past. John Cale I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. Xun Zi I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. Billy Joel I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. Joan Rivers I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold Kushner I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. Peter De Vries Im against fashionable thinking. Herman Kahn Ive never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. David Bowie If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isnt thinking. George S. Patton If I look confused it is because I am thinking. Samuel Goldwyn If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just aint enough! Shel Silverstein

 If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you dont do it, and
it wont happen. Desiderius Erasmus If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C.S. Lewis If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, youll never get it done. Bruce Lee In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, dont try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. Richard Bach It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. Stephen Hawking It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. Luther Burbank Its not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, its the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences. Tony Robbins Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill Let your performance do the thinking. Charlotte Bronte Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering because you cant take it in all at once. Audrey Hepburn Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. Mason Cooley Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. William James Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness really lies in contentment. Mohandas Gandhi Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Virginia Woolf Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Voltaire Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. David Herbert Lawrence Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months and without a new thought for years on end. Kent Ruth Most of ones life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley

 Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. Carlos Santana Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. Henry Louis Mencken My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. Billy Connolly My hand is the extension of the thinking process the creative process. Tadao Ando My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. Henry Van Dyke No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. Terry Josephson No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.Voltaire Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. John Wanamaker Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. G.C. Lichtenberg Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl G. Jung One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. Moliere Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. John Erskine Our job is not to make up anybodys mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. Anonymous Our minds are lazier than our bodies. Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fearbased. Deepak Chopra Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. Howard Mumford Jones People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. Anthony de Mello People who say they dont care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they dont care what people think. George Carlin Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. Martin H. Fischer Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, its because youve started to think of failure. Tommy Lasorda Pride is pleasure arising from a mans thinking too highly of himself. Baruch Spinoza

 Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. Karl
Von Clausewitz Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone elses head instead of with ones own. Arthur Schopenhauer Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. Nicholas Sparks Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Horace Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan Self-worth comes from one thing thinking that you are worthy. Wayne Dyer Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. James Thurber Some people get lost in thought because its such unfamiliar territory. G. Behn Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperors New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. Roger Penrose Sometimes I think and other times I am. Paul Valry Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant lose. Bill Gates Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. Joseph Addison The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. Norbet Platt The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichs. H.L. Mencken The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvy The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas A. Edison The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. Mary Stewart The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. H.G. Wells The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs. Norman Vincent Peale The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. Alice Walker The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. Martin Heidegger

 The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. Robert H.
Schuller The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, its a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. Charles R. Swindoll The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. John Locke The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. Tony Robbins The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. Mason Cooley There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days Im not positive I am thinking. John M. Eades There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. Georg C. Lichtenberg There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Clarence Day There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A. Edison Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Voltaire Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.Mason Cooley Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiffnecked adversary of thought. Martin Heidegger Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. Josiah Royce Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering

 Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put ones thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thinking isnt agreeing or disagreeing. Thats voting. Robert Frost Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. W. Clement Stone Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato Those who know how to think need no teachers. Mahatma Gandhi Thought is action in rehearsal. AnonymousThought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. Tryon Edwards Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they dont bite everybody. Stanislaw Lec To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one elses type of thinking. William James To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. Og Mandino To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. William Hazlitt Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you cant. The brain doesnt process negatives. Doug Coupland Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. Buddha We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus We teach people that they upset themselves. We cant change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. Albert Ellis What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. Voltaire When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. John Adams When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. Plato When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell

 When you control a mans thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. Carter G.
Woodson Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. Walter Anderson You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. Tadao Ando You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. Denis Waitley You sort of start thinking anythings possible if youve got enough nerve. J. K. Rowling