Aldous Huxley Quotes

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

I'm very left-brain.

Business has to be done with both head and heart.

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.