Thinker Quotes - Page 32

• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• I am a very bottom-up thinker.

  Ken Thompson

  Bottom

  "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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• The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Law, People

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• The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood, Deep Thinker

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.181, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

  Ayn Rand

  Father, Men, Political

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• My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Mother, Children, Emotion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You are the only thinker in
  your world and your thought
  is creative. Whatever you think
  about the other person, you are
  also creating in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Thinking, Creating, Creative

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

  Max McKeown

  Together, Stuff Happens, Really Cool

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• In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spiritual, War, Eye

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• There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And there was me, the thinker, the intellectual boxer. So there was something for every fan, if you like. The public could always identify with one of us.

  Lennox Lewis

  Hero, Animal, Intellectual

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

  Alan Cohen

  Long, Problem, Excited

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• Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

  David J. Schwartz

  Leadership, Optimistic, Creating

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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• Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

  Sterling W Sill

  Determination, Men, Opportunity

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• I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

  David Walliams

  Political, Luck, Wish

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

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• Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

  Nancy Kline

  People, Hierarchy, Equal

  Nancy Kline (2009). “More Time to Think: A Way of Being in the World”, p.45, Fisher King Publishing

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• Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

  Voltaire

  Ideas, Stomach, Spite

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• I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

  Roger Federer

  Uplifting, Thinking, Helping

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• Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, Teach, Our Children

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• You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  People, Phrases, Diners

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Worship, Despise, Composer

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• I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

  Michele Gorman

  Dream, College, Magic Kingdom

  Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK

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