John C. Maxwell Quotes

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

I try not to be overly analytical.

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

I'm a very introspective individual.

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.