Nancy Kline Quotes

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the catalyst for this fine thinking, you are both essential and irrelevant. You matter profoundly, because you do not matter at all.
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Nancy Kline (More Time To Think)
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Instead of racking your brain to come up with solutions and ideas, you create the best possible space for the other person to think effectively about the problem. The approach is called β€œextreme listening,” a term coined by educationalist Nancy Kline.
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Caroline Webb (How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond)
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Society teaches us that to be positive is to be naive and vulnerable, whereas to be critical is to be informed, buttressed and sophisticated. Organizations operate on this negative norm.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Then we construct an Incisive Question to remove each of those assumptions.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Co-dependence is rampant in any structure requiring obedience or conformity.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Addiction to work is one.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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co-dependence is an addiction to pleasing people.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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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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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Asking for information should occur only if it is necessary for the person thinking to think well.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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only when it will not interupt a successful stream of thought.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Appreciation of someone needs to be genuine, succinct and concrete. If you fake it, they will know. If you go on and on and on, they will go numb. If you are too general, they will not believe you.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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In fact, to take time to think is to gain time to live.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Most of the time being, with no rush, is what produces results.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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statement which requires you to obey, a question requires you to think.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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It is a presence defined by an absence.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Doing what everyone else does, thinking what everyone else thinks is rewarded.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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Ease is the space a Thinking Environment needs in order to stay intact.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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The most important factor in whether or not they could think for themselves, afresh, at a given moment seemed to be how they were being treated by the people with them.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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In exploring why it is that so few people appreciate each other directly, I discovered that the problem lies partly with the people being appreciated. They do such a lousy job of receiving. Many people are taught that to be appreciated is the slippery slope of gross immodesty and out-of-control egomania.
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Nancy Kline (Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind)
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They found that less blood flows to the brain, particularly to the cerebellum, cingulated gyrus and the left basal ganglia when we are thinking critical thoughts. Blood flows to those areas well, on the other hand, when we are thinking appreciative thoughts. Appreciation, it seems, is necessary for optimal brain functioning. Thinking needs blood, and blood needs Appreciation. Lovely.
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Nancy Kline (More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking)
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The idea that our clients or patients or students are equal to us as thinkers and should have at least equal time to think and speak seems absurd. What is the point of the professional if the client can think as well as (or even better than) the professional can? Professionals have two points. The first is to be a Thinking Environment for the client so that they can think for themselves brilliantly and discover the best way forward. The second is to offer information and experience and insight to the client that may be of value.
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Nancy Kline (More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking)