Integrative Thinking Quotes & Sayings

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking. — Deborah Tannen

Hybrid Thinking is a set of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking processes we will need to solve many of today's complex problems. — Pearl Zhu

I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology. — Andrew Weil

Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts. — Pearl Zhu

All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight. — Gretel Ehrlich