Chuck Todd Quotes

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

We keep saying we have no other course; what we should be saying is we are not bright enough to see any other course.

Just because we have the best hammer, does not mean that every problem is a nail.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.