Quotes About Thinking

Too many people, possibly even the majority of them, were all too content to let others do that thinking and analysis for them.

Unpleasant feelings merely indicate that you are thinking something negative and believing it. Your

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

Design thinking is a way of finding human needs and creating new solutions using the tools and mindsets of design practitioners.

She wanted to read and think and reconnect with her collegiate self, which had been so much more open and fluid and hopeful than the versions that had succeeded it.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react -- sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean -- a young man's version of critical thinking.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

No, and if it's not your brain thinking cold, cold thoughts, which you can dress in any kind of mood, then it's nothing. It has to be a cold, cold thought. I mean cold, or cool at least. Your brain. That's all there is.

Writing for me is thinking, and it's also a way to position myself in the world, particularly when I don't like what's going on. It's extremely important to me. ... I knew I always was compelled to do it, but I didn't know how essential it was to me.

Thinking 'economistically', as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.

It's how I keep my mind from becoming mush. Learn and think. Think and learn.

If we find ourselves tempted to celebrate one approach over the other, we should remember the caution of the Chinese sage Confucius, who told his followers, "Study without thinking and you are blind; think without studying and you are in danger."       Formal

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

There is an asymmetry in the work needed to generate a good question versus the work needed to absorb an answer.

Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A

To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different. Consider

history that seeks to exalt a nation's strengths without examining its shortcomings, that values feeling good over thinking hard, that embraces simplistic celebration over complex understanding, isn't history; it's propaganda.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.