Reflective Thinking Quotes

• Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wisdom, Thinking, Insight

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Distance, Eye

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• Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

  John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Thinking, Kind

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• Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.

  Michael Cisco

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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