Quotes About Thinking

The big secret to efficient creative and productive thinking and action is to put the right things in your focus at the right time.

Horizontal control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved. Vertical control, in contrast, manages thinking up and down the track of individual topics and projects.

Aumentar la calidad de nuestro pensamiento y compromisos no disminuye la cantidad de cosas potencialmente relevantes e importantes que hay que gestionar.

You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project, or situation—not about it. If you actually did this suggested exercise, you were required to structure your thinking toward an outcome and an action, and that does not usually happen without a consciously focused effort. Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He

And asking people to take the time to read and actually think about stuff? Heaven forbid.

it has always been both necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, and to separate them, so as to reduce his problems to manageable proportions; for evidently, if in our practical technical work we tried to deal with the whole of reality all at once, we would be swamped. So, in certain ways, the creation of special subjects of study and the division of labour was an important step forward.

the subtle but crucial role of our general forms of thinking in sustaining fragmentation and in defeating our deepest urges toward wholeness or integrity.

Although our modern way of thinking has, of course, changed a great deal relative to the ancient one, the two have had one key feature in common: i.e. they are both generally 'blinkered' by the notion that theories give true knowledge about 'reality as it is'. Thus, both are led to confuse the forms and shapes induced in our perceptions by theoretical insight with a reality independent of our thought and our way of looking.

between the 'left brain' and the 'right brain'.) This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. As

man's first realization that he was not identical with nature was also a crucial step, because it made possible a kind of autonomy in his thinking, which allowed him to go beyond the immediately given limits of nature, first in his imagination and ultimately in his practical work.

My first and most enduring challenge as CEO was to dramatically improve the quality of both our individual thinking and our group discussions.

In addition, we still do not really know how the brain creates emotions. We do not know why some people are more prone to negative thinking and gloomy moods throughout their lives, whereas others seem to be eternal optimists who always have a positive outlook and a cheerful disposition.

Because of your twisted thinking, you see yourself in a trap from which there seems to be no escape. You jump to the conclusion that your problems are insoluble. Because your suffering feels unbearable and appears unending, you may erroneously conclude that suicide is your only way of escape.

I suspect you will find that a great many of your negative feelings are in fact based on such thinking errors.

or-Nothing Thinking. You look at things in absolute, black-or-white categories, as if shades of gray do not exist, and you think of yourself as either a complete success or total failure. This dichotomous way of thinking can make life pretty miserable and make you feel like a zero, or nothing, most of the time. In addition, you can't accurately describe yourself or the world in black-or-white categories. Things are rarely totally horrible or absolutely perfect.

That is what cognitive distortions are: a highly misleading way of thinking about yourself and the world.

Definitions of Cognitive Distortions

Silk laughed. You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins. And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive, Barak told him coolly.

Men's minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.