Richard Branson Quotes

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.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

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

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

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.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

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.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

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

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.