“Thoughts Become Things… Choose The Good Ones!”

—  Mike Dooley

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Thoughts Become Things… Choose The Good Ones!" by Mike Dooley?
Mike Dooley photo
Mike Dooley8
American writer 1961

Related quotes

Marcel Duchamp photo

“.. the thing was to choose one [a ready-made object] that you were not attracted by.... and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough... [My intention was to] completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

Quote from The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 164
posthumous

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“You take souls for vegetables…. The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.”

Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Heinrich, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

Democritus photo

“If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

Abel Stevens photo

“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.”

Abel Stevens (1815–1897) American Methodist clergy

Madame de Staël http://books.google.com/books?id=i4wBAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Politeness+is+the+art+of+choosing+among+one%27s+real+thoughts%22&pg=PA79#v=onepage (1881)

“Your thoughts become things!”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

David Brin photo

““I thought they were very good at what they did.”
”Of course they were good!” Brill glanced sharply. “The issue is what one chooses to be good at. The arts are fine, for hobbies. I play six instruments, myself. But they pose no great challenge to a mature mind.””

David Brin book Glory Season

Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 545)

Khaled Hosseini photo

“At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

William James photo

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Bryan Adams photo

“The only thing I want,
The only thing I need,
The only thing I choose,
The only thing that looks good on me…is you.”

Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter

The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
Song lyrics, 18 til I Die (1996)

Related topics