Thinking Habits Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

A belief is really only a thought that you keep thinking.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.