Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

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

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

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

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

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

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

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

When I interview someone, I want to find out about their life, get a sense of their personality, their passion. Maybe I'm hiring for a certain job, but even if your job is marketing, I'm going to ask you for your opinion on other things - taste this, what do you think of this bottle?

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.

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

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

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.