Fast Thinking Quotes

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

I like the feeling when you don't have much time and you have to think fast.

When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on paper. And in documentary, you can write whatever you want, but life brings you situations where you have to be fast thinking, fast moving.

In Italy, you must think faster than defenders. It is a tough school.

If you want to play dominant football, you need to get the ball, think fast, and play quick combinations in small spaces.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

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.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

I know my energy level is unlike others. I know that my capacity to really think fast is unlike others, but I also know the price that comes with it.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet. That's why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.