Quotes About Thinking

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking." —DAVID SCHWARTZ

Poet and novelist James Joyce said, "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it." The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.

When you hear someone say, Now this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.

Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better. Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.

Good Thinking Increases Your Potential

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings.

Achievement comes from the habit of good thinking.

Sir Antony Jay said, The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. Wrong questions shut down the process of creative thinking. They direct thinkers down the same old path, or they chide them into believing that thinking isn't necessary at all.

knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

I've known businesspeople who were not realistic thinkers. Here's the good news: they were very positive and had a high degree of hope for their business. Here's the bad news: hope is not a strategy.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it." Because

One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.

Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.

There are two things that are most difficult to get people to do: to think, and to do things in order of importance." He

As Winifred Newman said, "Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols 'abstract' complexity from observed objects.

The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

It is easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

I hate having free time on my hands, it gives me the chance to think. And the only thing that takes control of my mind is the memories that I had with you.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Ive been laying here at night, listening to the rain, talking to my heart and just try to expain, why sometimes catch myself thinking about what could of been, yes I still think about you, every now or then.

The greatest pain one can get from failed relationship is the many years spent thinking that he or she is the right one and the only one for you, thinking how hard it is to start a new.

In order to move on from something of our past we have to change our way of thinking and our looking backward attitude.