Nancy Kline famous quotes

The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.
-- Nancy Kline

#Thinking #People #Focus

Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
-- Nancy Kline

#Dream #Thinking

A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.
-- Nancy Kline

#Two #Together #Half

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.
-- Nancy Kline

#People #Hierarchy #Equal

Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.
-- Nancy Kline

#Opportunity #Mind #Supervision

Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.
-- Nancy Kline

#Thinking

The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.
-- Nancy Kline

#Reality #Ideas #Brain

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.
-- Nancy Kline

#Thinking #Organization #Environment

Thinking for yourself is still a radical act
-- Nancy Kline

#Thinking #Radical #Stills

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Think it over, think it under.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus