Activity Quote by J. C. R. Licklider

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences…

— J. C. R. Licklider

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of…

— William Deresiewicz

The process of thinking is a way of analyzing and making the right assumption at the right moment in life.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn…

— Kathryn Lasky

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in…

— Madonna Ciccone

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

— Werner Heisenberg

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given…

— Dallas Willard

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

— Ernest Wood

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its…

— Margaret J. Wheatley