Thinker Quotes - Page 27

• Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

  Greg Perry

  Jobs, Political, Wealth

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• So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

  Brian Morton

  Shapes, Want, Fabulous

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• I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand it all from coast to coast - were very modern and radical in those days. Also, the fact that he married who he did and that he managed to deal with the consequences and ramifications of that marriage and stay on the throne until the day he died, that shows skill.

  Max Irons

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

  Alan Lightman

  Population, Serious, Reader

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Real, Kids, Stuff

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• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  Babe Ruth

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.

  Hermann Goring

  Taken, Men, Iron

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• I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony.
  
  I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

  Lester Holt

  Morning, Independent, Echoes

  "Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.

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• Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

  Ted Alexandro

  Comedian, Opinion, Philosopher

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.

  Ervin Seale

  Jumping, Drunk, Mind

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

  Zig Ziglar

  Vision, Negative

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• He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Compassion, Long

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• Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mistake, Errors, Data

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• From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Vision, God's Faithfulness

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

  Gabe Polsky

  Art, Play, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Political, Principles, Constitution

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

  Phil Collins

  Selfish, Principles, Considering

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• I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
  Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
  So then why get upset if somebody like me
  Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

  Al Yankovic

  People, Leader, Upset

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• Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Sight, Self

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• Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.

  Frances Stark

  Believe, Artist, Rivers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

  Edward de Bono

  Found, Knows, Vertical

  Edward de Bono (2009). “Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.

  Amy Webb

  Fun, Adventure, Optimistic

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• I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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