Gerrit Cole Quotes

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

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

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued soothsayer when it came to dispensing opinions to my friends about their life choices or relationships.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I'm a problem-solver.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.