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Ideas are nothing, doing is everything
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
All thinking begins with wondering
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
How often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working - just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low - self-examination.
Expand your vision and widen your reasoning
That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
A blind ingenuity goes nowhere
I overthink a lot of things.
Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.
Improve on upon your limit of thinking; it is the best step to repair what has been destroyed by limited thinking. Think big, think wide, and above all think positively!
We need to challenge our own thinking.
Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.
When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
Thinking is the oil which lubricates the action we undertake.
What was once thought can never be unthought.
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
Thinking is an action,
I've found that thinking often interferes with doing.
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
Sometimes, thinking can be a bad thing.
It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.
To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.
Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Knowing that what's in your head might not be right - but not having any idea how to fix it.
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.
This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.
To think is not always to see.
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.
Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.
Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. ... I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
Attempting to change our perception without changing our perspective is often an exercise in imagination. As
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
Thinking is my fighting.
I can tend to over-think things.
Mastering my mind one thought at a time.
Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.
Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted
Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too far
with thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their most
extreme consequence.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?
"Thinking" is not something we talk about.
Think innocently.
Think intelligently.
Think imaginatively.
Think inventively.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.
To do something innovative means that you reject reason.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise ... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
To think is not enough, you must think of something.-- Jules Renard
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
To think is not having but not having.
Inspiration is trying the unknown.
In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.
Less thinking, more living.
It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
Thinking isn't just an activity; it manifests as a state of being.
You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.
One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.
Be daring to push your ideas forward.
To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.
The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.
Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.