Independent Thinking Quotes - Page 2

• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Majority, Investing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Independent, Thinking, Judging

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.337, Courier Corporation

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• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  Hale Irwin

  Football, Independent, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

  Whitney Tilson

  Independent, Successful, Thinking

  Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons

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• And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

  Kinky Friedman

  Prayer, School, Independent

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• Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

  Bhagat Singh

  Independent, Thinking, Two

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

  Brice Marden

  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.

  Roger G. Ibbotson

  Independent, Thinking, Different

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• The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Investing, World

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.21, Penguin

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• Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Independent

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• I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Jobs, Children, Independent

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• many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Independent, Opportunity

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• Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Independent, Thinking, Government

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