Richard Ford Quotes

I have a very linear mind.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

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 wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

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.

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

There is a lushness to how my mind works.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.