Quotes About Thinking

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

My dad is a very logical person.

I'm not a very logical personal.

Football fandom is this, it's magical thinking, it's hope over experience.

I was relying on Suliman being alive.THen when all that seemed to be left of him was Percival, I was so scared I had to go out and get drunk. And then you go and play into the Witch's hand! I'm the eldest! Sophie shrieked. I'm a failure! Garbage! Howl shouted. You just never stop to think!

What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.

Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.

When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

The traditional measures of STM capacity range from five to seven, but from a practical point of view, it is best to think of it as holding only three to five items.

Muchas equivocaciones se deben a caprichos del pensamiento humano, a menudo porque la gente tiende a fiarse de las experiencias que recuerda, en lugar de utilizar un análisis sistemático.

We have long known that when people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentrating upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

When customers are thinking about buying, give them a few simple steps they can take to engage your brand and buy your products.

He remembered enough of his study of logic to recognize a slippery slope when he saw it, even in his own thinking, but still it felt right to suspect that Chiara's failure to give sympathy might somehow lead to a refusal to give aid.

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.

It was the most important night of my life,' he said calmly. 'It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most.' 'Which is?' 'To live without thinking.

The role of intellectual development is primary in evangelical Christianity, but you might not know that from a cursory look at the church today.

English professor Carolyn Kane wrote an article in Newsweek about the loss of thinking in American culture generally. After putting her finger squarely on the problem, Kane identified her solution in front of both God and the Newsweek readership: "But how can we revive interest in the art of thinking? The best place to start would be in homes and churches of our land.

If this is correct, then sermons should target people's thinking as much as their wills and feelings.

As theologian Carl Henry put it, "Training the mind is an essential responsibility of the home, the church, and the school. Unless evangelicals prod young people to disciplined thinking, they waste — even undermine — one of Christianity's most precious resources.

For some time, theological liberals have understood that whoever controls the thinking leadership of the church in a culture will eventually control the church itself.