Thinking Things Through Quotes:

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

- Eddie Rickenbacker

topic: Inspiration, Thinking, Giving, Follow Through, Thinking Things Through

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

- Liz Phair

topic: Thinking, Thinking Things Through

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

- Philip Zimbardo

topic: Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking, Thinking Things Through, Face Value

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

- Aubrey McClendon

topic: Dream, Creativity, Thinking, Thinking Things Through

I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun.

- Steve Ballmer

source: "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

topic: Fun, Thinking, Numbers, Shareholders, Thinking Things Through

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

- Diana Wynne Jones

source: Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.158, Random House

topic: Teacher, Real, Book, Real Books, Thinking Things Through

You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

- Malik Yoba

source: "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Fbi Agents, Training, Thinking Things Through