I Can. Therefore, I Will! by I Feel Good Magazine - HTML preview

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          We have approximately 50,000 - 60,000 thoughts per day. Unfortunately, 95% of those  thoughts  we had today are the same ones we had yesterday! That would make only 5% of thoughts we think are new each day.

          Are you thinking about what you're thinking about? Read that sentence again and read it carefully. It's not a play on words.

          People can typically remember about 7 (±2) items in a random list.

          The mind is an iceberg; it floats with only 17 percent of its bulk above water - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

Mind Insights

My life and work has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it.

Sigmund Freud   (1856 - 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst

We should take care not  to make the  intellect  our  god; it  has,  of  course,  powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein   (1879 - 1955) German-born U.S. physicist Out of My Later Years

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard   (1937 -      )

Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter

Indian Ink

I took my mind a walk or my mind took me a walk – whichever was the truth of it.

Norman McCaig   (1910 - 1996) Scottish poet

"An Ordinary Day"

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than T.V. It's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think that what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

Robert T. Pirsig   (1928 -      ) U.S. writer

Zen and the Art