Time to Think Quotes

“Society teaches us that to be positive is to be naive and vulnerable, whereas to be critical is to be informed, buttressed and sophisticated. Organizations operate on this negative norm.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Usually the brain that contains the problem also contains the solution – often the best one.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Addiction to work is one.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Co-dependence is rampant in any structure requiring obedience or conformity.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“co-dependence is an addiction to pleasing people.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Then we construct an Incisive Question to remove each of those assumptions.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“only when it will not interupt a successful stream of thought.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Asking for information should occur only if it is necessary for the person thinking to think well.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Most of the time being, with no rush, is what produces results.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Ease is the space a Thinking Environment needs in order to stay intact.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“It is a presence defined by an absence.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Appreciation of someone needs to be genuine, succinct and concrete. If you fake it, they will know. If you go on and on and on, they will go numb. If you are too general, they will not believe you.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“statement which requires you to obey, a question requires you to think.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Doing what everyone else does, thinking what everyone else thinks is rewarded.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“In fact, to take time to think is to gain time to live.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“The most important factor in whether or not they could think for themselves, afresh, at a given moment seemed to be how they were being treated by the people with them.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“In exploring why it is that so few people appreciate each other directly, I discovered that the problem lies partly with the people being appreciated. They do such a lousy job of receiving. Many people are taught that to be appreciated is the slippery slope of gross immodesty and out-of-control egomania.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind