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Quotes About Thinking

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
~ Clive Thompson
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
~ Ginni Rometty
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
~ Ginni Rometty
Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.
~ Kevin Mitnick
The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'
~ Christopher Voss
We have always believed that the most successful solutions reflect a diversity of skills, thinking, experiences, and outlooks.
~ Lynne Doughtie
Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.
~ Nolan Bushnell
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
~ Ben Carson
Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
It had been so long since she'd given herself permission to just feel without thinking, to act without discussing the consequences. And yeah, there would be consequences, she had no doubt.
~ Leah Braemel, Slow Ride Home
Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.
~ Danny M. Cohen, Train
The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology.
~ Arianna Ruby
Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ Mitch Albom
I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.' 'Your fate,' the Lord said. 'Something like that.' 'Perhaps I can help.' I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.' 'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.
~ Mitch Albom
He found himself thinking about his childhood. Why do you drink so much, Maestro? This is not a music question. Are you sad, Maestro? Again, not a music question. I am sad sometimes, Maestro. Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier. Yes, Maestro. Everyone joins a band in this life. Sometimes, they are the wrong ones.
~ Mitch Albom
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." He
~ Mitch Albom
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
~ Mitch Albom
No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
~ Mitch Albom
Faith, it is said, it's better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ Mitch Albom
You aint no devil, just a fool. The worst kind. A fool in love. What you thankin me for, Boy. You just rode two days in the trunk of a car, for a girl. You'd be better off if you's the Devil.
~ Mitch Albom
One reason for this is that the media are designed in such a way that thinking seems unnecessary (albeit superficial).
~ Mortimer J. Adler
your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.
~ Mortimer J. Adler