J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

I'm always quite rational.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

I'm very left-brain.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

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

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

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.