Cognitive Style Quotes

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Let's just say my mind is different.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.

I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some people are data-driven. I've always been more visual.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Everything I think is in pictures.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

There is a lushness to how my mind works.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.