Quotes About Thinking

I never read. It prevents me from thinking.

There are very fast-acting pathways in your brain that, with the first flush of threat, bypass your frontal cortex and rational thinking.12

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

Today I see myself as a spiritual being with three distinct human facets: I am what I think; I am what I do; I am what I feel. And, to the degree that I control my thinking, I control my actions. To the degree that I control both my thinking and my actions, I control my feelings. Then, the circle is completed when my feelings affect my thinking which again affects my actions.

Add the fact that we so-called normal people frequently allow other people and situations to control our emotions (and thereby our thinking and behavior), and the difference between us and them begins to blur.

The masses are like an animal that obeys its instincts. They do not reach conclusions by reasoning . . . The masses have a simple system of thinking and feeling, and anything that cannot be fitted into it disturbs them [. . .] what you tell the people in the mass, in a receptive state of fanatic devotion, will remain like words received under a hypnotic influence, ineradicable, and impervious to every reasonable explanation.

For HCPs, there often cannot be any shades of gray. This is called splitting. You may recognize this all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking when you hear an HCP say things like, "You always do this," and "You never do that.

For the person with BPD, feeling separated from someone else can be frightening. It makes them feel rejected, abandoned, and alone. So, consciously or unconsciously, they may discourage independence or independent thinking in people close to them.

Bedrijfsresultaten - die steeds een selectief beeld van de werkelijkheid bieden - woren elektronisch geregistreerd, gegroepeerd en verwerkt, nagenoeg zonder dat er nog eigenlijk denkwerk aan te pas komt.

Oh." It seemed I'd surprised him. "There isn't a lot of that kind of thinking around here." "Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.

After you have planned each detail of an activity, organized a tray of materials, and practiced with them, you can model a cycle of activity with the child. Do so very slowly and methodically, pausing briefly after each step. Your child wants to imitate you but his thinking skills are limited. He relies on habit, pattern and repetition.

You are not thinking of reading law, are you? he said. Oh God no! John Calley stood holding the paint can. I am looking for honest work.

Nadie enseña lenguaje a otro. El lenguaje es una invención humana que se hacesocialmente y nadie enseña, todos adquieren el lenguaje, crean el lenguaje. Lo que uno enseña al otro es la gramática. Hasta la Sintaxis en ciertas dimensiones tampoco se enseña, porque la sintaxis de tu análisis es la forma como el pensar se estructura en el discurso.

Verbalistic lessons, reading requirements,3 the methods for evaluating "knowledge," the distance between the teacher and the taught, the criteria for promotion: everything in this ready-to-wear approach serves to obviate thinking.

A coerência não é, porém, imobilizante. Posso, no processo de agir-pensar, falar, escrever, mudar de posição. Minha coerência assim, tão necessária quanto antes, se faz com novos parâmetros. O impossível para mim é a falta de coerência, mesmo reconhecendo a impossibilidade de uma coerência absoluta.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...

On that island was a lighthouse I had seen every single summer of my entire life and my mother, too, had seen it her entire life, and I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.

Explaining to people how lean transformations at a factory correspond to what happens to our cost of goods sold and our earnings and our stock price, that's kind of the change in thinking you want to get people bought into.

I have worked with numerous "well-therapized" people who were relatively free from perfectionism, but still seriously afflicted with the critic's addiction to noticing potential danger. Said another way, I have seen survivors eliminate much of their perfectionist, self-attacking thinking without realizing that the critic was still flooding their minds with fear-inducing thoughts and images.

Trying to come up with an answer rather than having it presented to you, or trying to solve a problem before being shown the solution, leads to better learning and longer retention of the correct answer or solution, even when your attempted response is wrong, so long as corrective feedback is provided.