Psychology Quotes by Walter Isaacson

10 Psychology quotes by Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson often chronicles the minds behind great inventions, and here he turns that lens inward. Ten concise statements reveal his view of how curiosity, discipline, and imagination shape our mental habits.

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“If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.”

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I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'…

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“men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly…

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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” he…

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“My mind, having been much more improved by reading than Keimer’s, I suppose it was for that reason my conversation seemed more…

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“He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when…

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“Most people have a regulator between their mind and mouth that modulates their brutish sentiments and spikiest impulses. Not Jobs. He made…

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If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only…

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“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in…

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“The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind,” he wrote. “The first is easy…

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“There was never a good knife made of bad steel ”

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“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.…

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“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity…

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“The company began attracting influential new investors.”

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“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views…

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“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,…

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“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have…

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“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other…

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“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true.…

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“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on…

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“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this…

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