Nelson Mandela Quotes

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

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.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

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

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

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

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

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.

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.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

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