Cathy Engelbert Quotes

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Since I was a young kid, I have always been calm on the ball. That comes down to awareness as well. When you have good awareness and you know what's going on around you, you don't need to panic. There is no point. It just makes things worse. You have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.