Newt Gingrich Quotes

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I try not to be overly analytical.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Imagination decides everything.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

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

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

It takes time and effort and preparation to think. Statesmen are far too busy making speeches to think.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.