Nancy Kline Quotes

United States, Author
1955

Nancy created and pioneered the development of the The Thinking Environment. She is Founder and President of Time To Think. A published author and public speaker, she also teaches Time To Think Courses, leads the Time To Think Faculty and delivers keynote presentations around the world.

Also known as Speaker

Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first.

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- Help
- Ideas
- Access
Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.

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- Thinking
- Yourself
- Act

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

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

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

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- Mind
- Bring
- Supervision
Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

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- People
- Equal
- Hierarchy
A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.

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

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- Thinking
- Meetings
- Turn

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

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- Think
- Free
- Dreams
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.

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