A. C. Benson Quotes

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

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

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Put your choices in perspective.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

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

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.