Gerardo Martino Quotes

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

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 have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

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

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

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

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

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

"What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical practice - tends to produce confidence in our solutions which, in turn, makes it easier for us, and thus quicker, to reach a decision.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.