Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

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.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

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

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.

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

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

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

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

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

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.