Limited Thinking Quotes

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems. They back away from challenges. Ironically, they back themselves into the biggest problem of all ... being broke, or close to it.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

How great in number are the little minded men.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.