Shared Thinking Quotes

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for all of my work and she's a great writer herself. If you live with somebody who's smart, they'll affect your thinking more than anything.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

As a bamboo conduit makes a round jet of water, so taking counsel together rounds men to one mind.

Prince and I happen to think alike.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

Great minds think alike.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

Abe was a good boy .... His mind and mine, what little I had, seemed to run together ... in the same channel.

If somebody has a question, they only have to ask one of us because we share a brain. We seriously have never said something different than the other one.