Thinking Styles Quotes

I rarely think in words at all.

Цomen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

A woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. The habitual direction of her mind [is] to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups

People have different mentalities, different loves.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

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.

I guess different brains work in different ways.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.