John C. Maxwell Quotes

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

I like to take information in and let it percolate.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Read less, study less, but think more

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.