Ability To Think Quotes

#1. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.

Ray Rice

#2. Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

Margaret Drabble

#3. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#4. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

Roger Ebert

#5. Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different ... to think out of the box.

Walter Isaacson

#6. Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

Yahya Mohamed

#7. There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Dalai Lama

#8. Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

Ilchi Lee

#9. Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#10. First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does not necessarily mean the ability to think.

Marie Sexton

#11. It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

Sachin Tendulkar

#12. Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Stephen King

#13. Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Samuel Ullman

#15. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight

#16. I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

Joe

#17. In order to be able to count earthly sorrows and afflictions as matters of joy, we have to cultivate the ability to think in terms of the future.

R.C. Sproul

#18. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Seymour Simon

#19. You are always free when you have the ability to think.

Debasish Mridha

#20. You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.

Rhonda Byrne

#21. The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Joan Didion

#22. when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.

Yeonmi Park

#23. The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

Jack Black

#24. THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE do not come only through the senses. Some of the most exhilarating experiences we undergo are generated inside the mind, triggered by information that challenges our ability to think, rather than from the use of sensory skills. As

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#25. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#26. Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited.

Rhonda Byrne

#27. You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

John Dewey

#28. Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

Frank K. Sonnenberg

#29. Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

Ciputra

#30. Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process.

Stephen R. Covey

#31. In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

Marianne Williamson

#32. The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' - the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima" - the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

#33. I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Richard Pryor

#34. I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Michael Chang

#35. Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#36. Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write

Thomas DeBaggio

#37. You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Mark Haddon

#38. If she hadn't been sitting, her knees wouldn't have held her up, because he kissed away her annoyance, her good sense, any ability to think, everything.

Jill Shalvis

#39. In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

Barack Obama

#40. The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

Wayne Grudem

#41. Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#42. The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Aubrey De Grey

#43. The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

Ludwig Von Mises

#44. Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

T. B. Joshua

#45. When energy is profoundly dissipated, the ability to think is clearly eroded, and the capacity to actively engage in the efforts and pleasures of life is fundamentally altered, then depression becomes an illness rather than a temporary or existential state.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#46. Us the ability to think with your mind, to hear with your ears, to see with your eyes, to speak with your mouth, to walk with your feet, to love with your heart. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#47. It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

Peter Coveney

#48. Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.

Neville Goddard

#49. The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

James Frey

#50. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

Maxine Greene

#51. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.

Charles C. Ryrie

#52. Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

Aristotle.

#53. Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#54. Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Thomas Bernhard

#55. Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A.E. Housman

#56. To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

Wallace D. Wattles

#57. The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

Nathaniel Branden

#58. As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

David Cross

#59. What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

Sakyong Mipham

#60. You learn to write better by reading.
You learn to read better by writing.
Reading and writing work together
to improve your ability to think!

Unknown

#61. The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

Veronica Roth

#62. Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

#63. What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#64. Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.

Dan Brown

#65. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#66. The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#67. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

Daniel Mazia

#68. If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Hannah Arendt

#69. The researchers summarized: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.". Long ago, Buddhists reached much the same conclusion.

David Michie

#70. [On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

Laurie Colwin

#71. If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Josh Lanyon

#72. True leadership, true and genuine leading requires intelligence, an independent mind, the ability to delay gratification, the ability to think long term, and above all else a spine.

Aaron Clarey

#73. [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

#74. Not only the entire ability to think rests on language ... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

#75. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Oliver DeMille

#76. Human willingness to believe
precedes their ability to think.

Toba Beta

#77. If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Franz Grillparzer

#78. Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

Brian Schmidt

#79. What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Matthew Stewart

#80. During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Baruch

#81. Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

Roland Joffe

#82. Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself.

Brian Tracy

#83. Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Margaret Heffernan

#84. I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#85. As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#86. I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

Brie Larson

#87. I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

Jeff Stilson

#88. I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Richard Avedon

#89. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

#90. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.

Kate M. Colby

#91. I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.

Lee Child

#92. Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

Graham Moore

#93. I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Victoria Legrand

#94. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.

Kathleen Norris

#95. To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Wendell Berry

#96. Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

G. Willow Wilson

#97. I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

Steven Pinker

#98. Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

Brett Morgen

#99. I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#100. Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively. Not

Sharon Salzberg