Richard Foster Quotes

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Information work is thinking work.

Think until it hurts.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

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

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

Strain your brain more than your eye.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.