Jim Rohn Quotes

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

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 like to figure things out and solve problems.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

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

Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

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

I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

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

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

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.

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.

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

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

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

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

I try not to be overly analytical.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!