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vt. 想；认为；想起；想像；打算
vi. 想；认为
n. 想；想法
adj. 思想的

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They think, ‘Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,' says Lindson-Hawley.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.

Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

It gives them the encouragement, I think, to really go for it, Ferreira says.

I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.

I did what everybody else thought looked successful, she says.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

And I think people see that for smoking as well.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

Katherine started to think.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

We thought we would see differences based on the housing types, said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university.

The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.

Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in lifeAncient philosophers strongly advise that we do good.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

I think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry ( ' , 诡辩 ).

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

Before we collectively tear our hair out—how are we supposed to find our way in a landscape this confusing? —here is a thought from Dr.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

When the system thinks it's being jammed, it'll notify you via -94- push alert ( ' , 推送警报).

They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is not fixed and can be developed through education and hard work.

Most of you probably think that you hate tipping, too.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

There's no need to go out and find people you hate, but you need to do some self-assessment to determine where you have become stale in your thinking.

It will not be difficult to make learning a source of joy if educators change their way of thinking.

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

Grown-ups are likely to think that learning to children is what medicine is to patients.

But you can't force the child to think carefully, enjoy books, digest complex information, or develop a taste for learning.

But actually, the country is closer to his proposal than you might think.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions ( ' , 过渡 ), structure, style and voice.

A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

To his classmates and even to his teachers, he was thought of as the dumbest kid in the class,according to his own not so fond memories.

The products were much better than people thought they would be.

In Japan,once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

"As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen," says Nguyen. "In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voic

"I think we're unique as a federal agency," USPS official Mike Swigart told me, "because we're in literally every community in this country."

"right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can't control,'' he said.

"They think, 'Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,'" says Lindson-Hawley.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.

As a result, they will help improve your ability to think.

But almost any drug, when it's misused, can make a person think he needs it all the time.

But I think successful negotiators have several things in common.

But I'm here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.

But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.

Children do not think the way adults do.

Come to think of it, my parents did throw her a surprise party that year.

Even though they see going to college as a fairly achievable goal, a majority—52 percent—think that young people do not need a four-year college education in order to be successful.

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

He's a difficult man, and I think there's been some trouble on the shop floor.

I know they have at least two temporary positions available, and I don't think they have anyone else yet.

I mean a lot of people seem to think that it's a nice job, you know.

I mean isn't it time for you to think about getting married?

I think a maker space is more like a library in that there are multiple subjects and multiple things that you can lean.

I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be tuned off, if it's not a security issue.

I think it's a heightened role.

I think it's about how climate change affects everyday life.

I think we should try to reverse that.

In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voice in it.

It almost never really rains as most people think.

It gives them the encouragement, I think, to really go for it.

It's still in its early stages, but I think it's shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.

Just think of your life in Milan.

Komada likes to teach his students that they should think about their move before they do it.

people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes, but few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests.

So I think it's the restrictions that create the dangers sometimes.

So you don't think fining people is useful.

So, I think we're more or less clear what the show will be like.

Students are more likely to think about their actions and see whether they will lead to trouble.

Taking a trip underwater and exploring the inside of a sunken A0 would be quite an adventure, and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think.

Taking a trip underwater and exploring the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite an adventure, and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think.

The first private mission outside of Earth's orbit is closer than many of us think.

These are games that challenge you to think deeply and to develop your analytical skills.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbe

think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry.

Today's psychology texts, for example, ask: "How much of your personality do you think you inherited?"

Traditional CBT is considered an effective form of talk therapy for depression, helping people challenge negative thoughts and change the way they think in order to change their mood and behaviors.

We want to persuade males to think about career options of going into nursing.

When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student's sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

He thought the state's outsourcing proposal was simply unworkable.

Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself.

If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.

I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

They think of their parents with affection and respect.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Many even think their parents are cool! Although more than a third have an object in their rooms they would like to keep secret from their parents, rarely is it anything more alarming than a diary or offcolor ( ' , 低俗的) book or CD.

In those essays, and in follow-up interviews with a few of the teenagers, we found lots of insight, positive feeling and inspirational thinking.

He thinks it the only way out of the current food crisis.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

Another, discussing national politics, said, I feel like one person can't do that much, and I get the impression most people don't think a group of people can do that much.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a white disease.

Developing independent and creative thinking abilities.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull ( ' , 间歇期 )?In some ways, the answer is yes.

You can think of it as physical attraction.

Operationally, you could think intimacy as you share secrets: you share information with this person that you don’t share with anybody else.

At worst, they’ll think the messages about soda are the same as the messages about water.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

Unfortunately, there tends to be a lack of information and support to help students think bigger and broader.

Train students to think about global issues.

They have learned to think critically.

The union backing it makes members think there must be something in it.

The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

Should doctors consider Medicare's budget in deciding what to use?I think ethically（在道德层面上） we are just worried about the patient in front of us and not trying to save money for the insurance industry or society as a whole, said Dr.Donald Jensen.Still

It is actually about what their peers think of them, what their social norms are, what is seen as desirable in society.

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.

I think it's a terrific idea, she says of the campaign.

He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because 1 think it's bad for the healthcare budget in Massachusetts.

From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.

Education has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.

As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.

5 percent of the second group thought so.

But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.

"I think it's a terrific idea," she says of the campaign.

"It made me think about how I'm teaching him to have ownership of his own body and how what is shared today endures into the future," Dunham says.

"The typical American diet is a lot higher in protein than a lot of us think," says registered dietitian Angela Pipitone.

And I think we should give it a go.

And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull?

And just think of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in robot.

And this finding could have important implications for how we think about educating adolescents.

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor-pool momentum.

Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?

But I think your profession is sometimes underrated, and many people think anyone who speaks more than one language can do it.

But it actually shouldn't matter to you nearly as much as you think.

But there's a danger they're ill-equipped to think through potential unintended consequences.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, "I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because I think it's bad for the healthcare budget in Massachusetts."

Hogg says that scooping is less of a problem than many think.

I do think there are advantages to schools with more recognition, notes Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania.

I don't necessarily think that's a reason to go to one.

I don't think we know exactly what's going to happen but it's certainly possible that we could get very slow growth over the next year or two.

I still think that your idea is great and that you would turn it into a phenomenal success.

I think a lot of what people consider luck is attributed to how you respond to the opportunities that come your way.

I think it's a nice, friendly relationship.

I think it's a problem because you're not giving equal access to education to everybody.

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact, imp

I think that left a big impression on her.

I think this is a very legitimate concern, and I appreciate their drawing our attention to it," David hill, a father of five, says.

I think we need to stress that while there will be some job changes, there won't be anyone getting dismissed.

Isn't the issue how old we think we are?

It might seem surprising to think about an item staying in space for that long, but the oldest satellite still in orbit—Vanguard 1—turned 60 in 2018.

It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

Many advocates think that transparent data procedures with a date and time stamp will protect scientists from being scooped.

Many people assume that our attitudes are internally consistent, that is, the way you think and feel about someone or something predicts your behavior towards them.

One of the most effective ways to change an attitude is to start behaving as if you already feel and think the way you'd prefer to.

Operationally, you could think intimacy as you share secrets: you share information with this person that you don't share with anybody else.

Personally, I do not believe in any of these slimming gadgets and I think I have a very different perspective when it comes to the definition of what is beautiful.

Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.

Researches have found that it gives us a chance to think about our goals and it also seems to increase creativity.

So I don't think it's very efficient.

So I think in the future, materials will evolve, and they will look and feel like fabrics we know today, like cotton or silk.

Take some time to reflect on your attitudes, to think about what you believe and why.

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone: we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.

To do this successfully, their brain prompts them to think and even obsess about others.

Usually my imagination has moved on and I can think of different contexts or a different way to do it.

We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies.

We think we lost this hair because of the need to keep ourselves cool when we were moving around vigorously in a hot environment.

What they don't need to do—what would be a distraction—is to have to think about where their fingers are, or how to control the ball while running.

When considering risk factors associated with serious chronic diseases, we often think about health indicators such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and body weight.

You'd think I'd be used to it by now.

"I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age" Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

A kind of "green thinking " has become part of practices.

And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.

Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because it remains unknown how users' data will be taken advantage of.

Anger is a particularly strong feeling and Maybe people think that they have reasons to feel angry.

As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses.

Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.

Because they think as one, they have a collective 集体的 intelligence greater than you would expect from its individual parts.

Bob thought he couldn't go to the party because he had to write a report, but he went after all.

Body movements change the way people think.

Building snowmen helped people develop their skill and thought.

But I could not help thinking about that silly poem.

But I don't think we can get the tickets this late.

But it makes me happy think that I'll never have to go to another training session again.

But Mann thinks Terrafugia has come closer than anyone to making the flying car a reality.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

But we do think that you can live a more powerful life when you devote some of your time and energy to something much larger than yourself.

But, Kate, I still think old age should be about peace and relaxation.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.

Each day, 27 kids entered "the thinking laboratory".

Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.

Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside.

Excuse me, but I think this seat — 16C — is mine.

For example, snowmen were a phenomenon in the middle ages, built with great skill and thought.

For example, think of an adjustable desk lamp.

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

For weeks, I've been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: how do we make it a habit for them?

From day two everyone wanted to walk the cute puppy that first day, neither thought to walk the dog.

Gene was thrilled, thinking he would make his first fortune.

Give it some thought and then let me know.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

Having interesting things to think about also helps.

He always answered, "Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish", I remember being even more upset then because, "I'm not a fish!" I didn't know how to think like a fish.

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

He comforted himself with the thought she had died in the most beautiful part of the country.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.

He thought about all the survival shows he had watched on TV.

He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

He thought of it as being naughty.

He thought that joe must be dead, but he didn't want to leave immediately.

He was shocked, it was like he did not think anyone would ever know what he had done.

However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

However, physicist Joseph west thought there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study.

However, when you think about it, small talk is anything but small.

I am afraid they seem to think they own the roads.

I don't think I want to spend a year and a half out there on my own.

I don't think it's all that bad.

I don't think we can get there in time to see the beginning.

I don't think what he said is relevant to the topic we are discussing.

I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own.

I have thought long and hard about it and it's true.

I hope you don't think I disliked the playing.

I left for the land of warmth and Vitamin C, thinking of beaches and orange trees.

I never thought that I would like living in a big city, but I was wrong.

I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking.

I think almost all the people in the town were there.

I think I was a bit rude to you.

I think I'll get started with these books.

I think I'll have the roast chicken.

I think it is a general principle.

I think it is just right.

I think it would be satisfaction of enjoying things with others, meaning when you give it to others, whether it's time, attention, a gift, anything, just those moments of sharing.

I think that living in an area where everyone was just like me would quickly become dull.

I think that's a normal reaction for mothers.

I think the film is good because it is scary.

I think the interview went very well.

I think the supermarket is close now.

I think there is plenty of space to the right of the cucumbers.

I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.

I thought to myself, "if he can do it, then so can I."

I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader.

I thought, "why don't they just try rolling the things" a square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized.

I woke up the next morning, thinking I would definitely be criticised.

If I have a "new idea", I now quickly look to see whether somebody else has already thought of it, or something similar—and I then compare what I think with what others have thought.

If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community.

If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse.

Imagine you are a student and you share a flat with another student who you think isn't doing her share of the housework.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our "friend" there would appreciate.

It can be inferred from the passage that Nigel Shadbolt doubts whether people would pay as much attention to a kitemark as they think.

It is necessary for us to think of others and be considerate to them.

It is thought that they are capitalising on their predators天敌fleeing to quieter areas.

It would allow much room for free thinking.

It's easier than we think to get what we want.

It's impractical to change our way of thinking.

It's more likely that none of us start a conversation because it's awkward and challenging, or we think it's annoying and unnecessary.

It's much more helpful to say something like, " I think we had better have another look about how we divide up the housework.

It's surprising how much simple movements of the body can affect the way we think.

It's very nice, but I think your prices seem very high.

Jason thought it was extremely amusing, but I was a bit disappointed.

Joni thought that would be the end.

Learning to think critically is an important skill today's children will need for the future.

Leroy Chiao describes what happens even before you float out of your seat, your inner ear thinks you're falling.

Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter， we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless； this allows us to think one way and act another.

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.

Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

Now think of your laptop, thinner than a brown-paper envelope, or your cellphone in the palm of your hand.

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience.

But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views.

So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

Especially significant was his view of freedom, which, for him, was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual: he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says.

We think of it simply as a healthy and helpful flow of intelligent thought.

It’s not as expensive as you might think.

So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills - and in their choices on when to share on social media.

"I don't think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion," says Epley.

"I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said. "I don't think people are capable of that anymore. "

"If we were really bold, we might even begin to think of high-calorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising, product placement and sponsorship of sport events," he said.

An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you're more beautiful than you are.

And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to make up for errors and fix relationships.

And yet, it would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bust cycle.

But the skills they learn - how to think logically through a problem and organize the results - apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.

Carnegie would be right if arguments were fights, which is how we often think of them.

given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.

It's not as expensive as you might think.

It's not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help shape how executives think about the future. "It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average," said on

Just think: that is the worst that could happen?

Just how people think is still far too complex to be understood, let alone reproduced, says David Eagleman, a Stanford University neuroscientist.

Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.

Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

Prior knowledge and interests influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.

Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.

The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

Think about how tough it is to get together 15 people, much less 50, who all get along perfectly.

We don't need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories.

within companies, the right compensation design can provide incentives for executives to think beyond their own time at the company and on behalf of all stakeholders.

You live in your skin, think your own thoughts, have your own values and make your own choices.

You'd think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behavior helps us "step outside time's flow" into "soul time".