Quotes About Thinking

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Most assume mastery is an end result, but at its core, mastery is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a journey you experience. When

You know about habits. They can be hard to break—and hard to create. But we are unknowingly acquiring new ones all the time. When we start and continue a way of thinking or a way of acting over a long enough period, we've created a new habit. The choice we face is whether or not we want to form habits that get us what we want from life. If we do, then the Focusing Question is the most powerful success habit we can have.

Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

Many of Admiral Stark's subordinates were so fixated on the idea that the navy battleships were protecting Pearl Harbor that they had trouble seeing the ships themselves as a Japanese target. The connection strategy is more than just connecting the dots. It involves changing the way we think.

The more central the belief is to our thinking, the harder it is to give up. These core beliefs anchor our understanding. We use them to make sense of events, to inquire, and to arrive at judgments about other ideas. And so we are much more likely to explain away any anomalies rather than revise our beliefs in the face of them.

Insights shift us toward a new story, a new set of beliefs that are more accurate, more comprehensive, and more useful. Our insights transform us in several ways. They change how we understand, act, see, feel, and desire. They change how we understand.They transform our thinking; our new story gives us a different viewpoint. They change how we act.In some cases insights transform our abilities as well as our understanding

In many ways, prevailing ways of thinking about animals should make us skeptical of our claim that it is our rationality that distinguishes "us" from "them.

Old habits die hard, but that does not mean they are morally justified. It is precisely in situations where both moral issues and strong personal preference is coming to play that we should be most careful to think clearly. As the case of meat-eating shows, however, sometimes our brute preferences determine a moral thinking rather than the other way around. Many people have said to me "Yes I know it's morally wrong to eat meat, but I just love hamburgers.

The reason for this is that charisma and success go hand-in-hand and they require a certain kind of mindset and thinking. This successful mindset and thinking just doesn't mix well with complaining. Instead

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

a miracle according to the Course being a shift in perception 14 over to the Holy Spirit's way of thinking, and not merely a modification of your own thoughts, forms or circumstances.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Do you see the common thread in all this thinking? Two words: misplaced expectations. When you expect people, places, and things to fulfill your wants, you will be disappointed. And anytime you put your expectations for help in the wrong place, the result is fear.

Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.