Abstract Thinking Quotes:

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Positivity, Gifts And Talents, More Knowledge

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Art, Reality, Inspiration And Art, Abstract Art

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom, Gifts And Talents, Absorbing

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Impact, Abstract Thinking, Intuitive

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Creativity, Thinking, Views, Abstract Thinking

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

- Kathryn Lasky

source: "An Interview With Kathryn Lasky About Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

topic: Thinking, Literature, Helping, Abstract Thinking

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

- Bill T. Jones

topic: Teamwork, Art, Thinking, Abstract Thinking

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

- Willem de Kooning

topic: Lying, Thinking, Way, Abstract Thinking

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.

- Josiah Royce

source: Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

topic: Real, Unique, Thinking, Abstract Thinking, Elude Us

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

- Jeanette Winterson

source: Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

topic: Thinking, Issues, Vocabulary, Low Level, Abstract Thinking