Daniel Levitin Quotes

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

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.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

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.

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

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

Science is the only true guide in life.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

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.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.