Richard Pryor Quotes

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

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.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

I try not to be overly analytical.

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

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

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I haven't lost my head yet.