Eric Kandel Quotes

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

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

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

I want to make smart choices.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

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

At all times it is better to have a method.

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

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

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

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

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

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.

'D' is about a guy who starts off somewhere, and he's a very thinking kind of a guy. He's not an emotional person; he doesn't react to situations. Instead, he's virtually choreographing the situations. So it's a development of a character.