Thinking Speed Quotes

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

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

I never realized it until I watched an interview, but sometimes my brain stutters between thoughts, and for some reason it comes out as an 'ummmm.' I'm hoping it's because I'm so smart, and there's just too much information to process, but it's more than likely just because it's a small processor.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

I'm mentally agile.

I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.

I don't know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn't have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.

You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility... It's not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.