Erich Fromm Quotes

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

If you think well, you cook well.

Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

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.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

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

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.