A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you'll never get it done.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
Computer games tend to be boys' games warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company and its people to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology yet most of us are alienated from science.
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher thinking how it wouldn't work.
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking individuality is not highly prized.
A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.