Who
said, “You will always have everything you want in life if you’ll help
enough other people get what they want,”? I guess you know the answer.
Zig Ziglar.
Who said, “It is a thousand times better
to have common sense without education than to have education without
common sense.”? Now you are thinking. It was Robert Green Ingersoll
that said it.
Who said, “The person who will use his
skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a
dollar, instead of how much he can get for a dollar, is bound to
succeed.” You’re correct if you say HENRY FORD.
Now,
did you know you can be the man, brain behind that business,
relationship, money and success famous thoughts or quotes? Yes, you
can, you can wax your own great thoughts and quotes, especially if you
are a writer. I have begun waxing my own original business,
relationship, money and success thoughts and quotes. By the grace of
God, the world will have in their hands my début book, a collection of
about 100 carefully worded personal thoughts, reflections, opinions,
beliefs, and philosophies on various subjects borne out of my personal
sweet and bitter experiences, by the first quarter of next year.
Now,
how do you come up with your own original thoughts and quotes, assuming
you're interested at being a pioneer of one? By my own experience, here
are a few tips of the many ways I use, which you can adopt:
BE A READER:
If
you want to be credited with some great quotes someday, you have to
have an undying passion for reading. You have to read books with an open
mind, read for insights and not only for pleasure, always read between
the lines. Also, always read with a pen and paper in your hand to jot,
mark, asterisk, or underline or copy out any ideas or words that tickles
fascinates you. You have to be word crazy fellow, a word junkie or
word enthusiast, if you like. You must have a mind that appreciates well
worded expression, humor, witty and weighty words; a lover of quotes.
Reflects, meditate and ponder over every word that strike you
positively. Good thoughts are contagious, so take time to develop your
own thoughts.
BE A THINKER
It was Harriet
Martineau who said, "Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare." On his
own, John Locke said, “Reading furnishes the mind only with material for
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
In
other words, to be able to come up with your own great quotes, you need
to be a thinker, a deep one for that matter. Reading has the power to
start some sort of thinking in you; it will make you aware of something
within you, something that your ingenuity can coin. “Awareness is not
just noticing what’s going on around you, but what’s going on within you
as well,” says the writer the article 60 Quotes that Will Change the
Way You Think, www.marcandangel.com, so “Keep your eyes open & your
Self in mind,” when you read. any material that makes you think deep
can make you come up with deep concepts. Thoughts attract thoughts as
“Deep calleth unto deep...” Psalms 42:7, and “Iron sharpeneth iron...”
Proverbs 27:17. “The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty
thought and of elevated opinions” says Christopher Dawson. I always come
up with most of my quotes when a book suggests something interesting to
me, as the Oliver Wendell Holmes puts it. “The best of a book is not
the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests...”
What it means is that reading insightful quotes can make you a proponent
of one
Therefore, I charge you to not just become a
reader but a thinker also. Do something fantastic with the inspiration
you get from reading inspiring books. Make powerful statement out of
your thoughts.
Learn To recreate or Rephrase Existing Quotes if you can
An
existing quote can inspire you to come up with your own quotes along
the same line in a different way by re-phrasing them. For instance,
someone said, Readers are leaders. And I rephrased it this way: Readers
who read through and follow through are leaders. Think about it, being a
reader is not where it ends. It’s the action you take that matters.
Control Your Mind
The
ability to exercise absolute control of your mind is called self
supremacy. What it means is that your mind can determine the kind of
things that goes into your mind. The kind of places you go to, the kind
of people you interact with, the things you talk about, the things you
see, the kind of books you read, will determine the kind of things that
goes into your mind and consequently, the kind of thoughts you come up
with. So if you want to always come up with great thoughts, surround
yourself with things that can induce great thoughts. “The great business
of life is thinking. Control your thought and you control circumstance”
says Robert Collier.
Who says you can’t be the brain behind that
business, relationship, money and success thoughts or quotes if you do
this? Its all in your mind and up to you.
BE AN OBSERVER
If
you want to come out with great thoughts and quotes then you must use
your common sense. Be observant of happenings in your environment. I
believe God gave us the five sensory organs to help and guide us in our
day to day activities and living. We are supposed to use the six senses,
common sense to interpret the messages perceived by the five senses.
You must make deductions of the things you see, hear perceive and word
them well for others to learn from. For instance, the wisest man who
ever lived once said, “I went by the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown
over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the
stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I
looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty
come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.” Proverbs
24:30-34. The beautiful quote I make out of this scripture going by the
way is worded is: “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little
folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”
Collate
your thoughts and quotes and publish it. That's exactly what the wise
man, King Solomon did. "And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he
still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought
out, and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find out
acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of
truth. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the
masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd." Ecclesiastes
12:9-11
Finally, I want to say that reading thinking
and the ability to use you common sense to interpret happening in your
environment are key to creating your own powerful thoughts and quotes.
I
charge you to “Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your
dream,” Les Brown. Begin also to observe things that will make you
produce your own powerful business, relationship, money and success
thoughts and quotes.
How have this article helped you?
Do you have any suggestion or criticism? Do you have anything to add to
what I have said? Please I want to know through your comment.
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