“The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about.”

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

“We become what we think. Think wisely!”

Ralph Smart

“What we think, we become.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”

Nicholas Carr (1959) American writer

“The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“All agree in recognising the fact that females exist in the human species; today as always they make up about one half of humanity. And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

“We are always obliged to think about the larger system. If we fail to do this, then our thinking becomes fallacious.”

C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician

“We have discovered that what a year ago seemed to be a neglected house is essentially a ruin.
This is not a pleasant fact, and it is not surprising that all of us are rather annoyed and disappointed about it.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic