Thinking
Never stop dreaming, even after all your dreams come true. Dreams are the key to
tomorrow, and they will unlock the door to all you tomorrow yet to come. (Lenore
Olsen)
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few
engage in it. (Henry Ford)
But, although we cannot work the laws of association forward, we can always work
them backwards. We cannot say now what we shall find ourselves thinking of five minutes
hence; but, whatever it may be, we shall then be able to trace it through intermediary
links of contiguity or similarity to what we are thinking now. What so baffles our
prevision is the shifting part played by the margin and focus--in fact, by each element by
itself of the margin or focus--in calling up the next ideas. (William James, Talks to
Teachers)
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