Thinker Quotes - Page 25

• I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Cameras, Use

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Coincidence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Leader, Brave, Vision

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Education, Creativity, Artist

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.14, Penguin

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• An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

  Franz Mehring

  Political, Mind, Germany

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

  Tim Brown

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

  Ray Dalio

  Independent, Understanding, Essentials

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• Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Ideas, Welcome, Surprise

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

  Mariano Azuela

  Revolution, Rebellious, Bandits

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• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Hero, Artist, Blood

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.

  Max McKeown

  Powerful, Together Again, Imagination

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.31, Pearson UK

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• You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Good Writers

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• ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, May, Revolution

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• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Appreciation, Taken, Athlete

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• It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

  Norman Tebbit

  Eugenics, Views, Political

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  Karl Jaspers

  Reality, Past, Littles

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• The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Boys, Office, Brain

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• It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Self, World, Hardest

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• He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

  Rick Danko

  Goal, Ifs

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• God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Religion, Answers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

  Max Lucado

  Hope, Opportunity, People

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Thinking, Different

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.132, Taylor Trade Publishing

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