September 2007
A monthly Newsletter with tips and techniques about problem solving, creativity, innovation and critical thinking
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The Headscratcher Post |
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September 2007 The Headscratcher Post © Headscratchers LLC Edition 29 |
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Instead of our “thinking” this month, here are some thoughts from others who have done a great deal of “thinking”. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being. Rod Serling (1924 – 1975) Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. Joseph Ernest Renan (1823 - 1892) Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke (1632 - 1704) Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) There are two ways to slide easily through life: namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned Edward de Bono (1933 – The more you think, the more time you have. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James (1842-1910) Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss (1901-1994) On how he made discoveries by always thinking unto them. . . . I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light. Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Thought is action in rehearsal. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) The Takeaway. “Thinking” has been in high regard, and played a pivotal roll for those who have had great accomplishments throughout history. Be a part of the future history. Click Here for Previous Editions of the HeadScratcher Post |
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