David Bohm Quotes

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

A feeling is not a fact.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

What you do comes from what you think.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?

People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit like all these languagesBut compared with any given language, mentalese must be richer in some ways and simpler in others.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.