Quotes about Thinker

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

George Bernard Shaw

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Bertrand Russell

Richard is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker who has the experience and vision to grasp the challenges and opportunities facing BBC Children's. I am confident he will build the output and reputation of the department both nationally and internationally.

Alan Yentob

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parker

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Jacques Maritain

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

David Deutsch

Despite the fact that we have spent gazillions of dollars in schools on technology, it's still just a leap of faith that kids are better educated because of that. Students need to have some opportunity to digest material serially, like reading a book from end to end. A tiny screen might stop you from being an analytic thinker 'cause you just can't see enough of a thing at once.

Robin Raskin

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Andrew Bernstein

He's a thinker in all accounts. He's a guy that's made solid decisions in his life, and he has a great future, whether it's basketball or otherwise.

James Ware

Jerry is a strategic and analytical thinker who could be the chairman to pull GM out of this crisis.

Thomas Stallkamp

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Michael Chang

He's very mature for his age, a quick thinker and quick to act.

Dan Curtis

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

H. P. Lovecraft

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Bell Hooks

I took an oath, not to protect unions, but to do what is in the best interest to protect the welfare of the citizens of Palm Springs. When I look at the people who are employed there and the million-dollar tax base it's brought in, how could I in clear conscience say no? I am a Democrat to the core, but I am an independent thinker.

Ron Oden

Jason King has no gimmicks in his game. He's a real heady player and he's a good thinker. Jason is a mature guy, and he thinks the game well. He's got very good talent, really good hands and a knack to score. I was joking that I don't get called into the power-play meeting anymore, which is a good thing. I'm not complaining, I'm happy about us having depth like that. That's a good thing.

Trevor Linden

She walked into a volatile situation. But I think that she's a clear thinker. I think that she really wants to improve the system for both the student and the teachers, other support staff.

Wendy Kimball

She was a critical thinker and she had an open mind. In addition to being a critical thinker, she was a free thinker. She wasn't afraid to go down her own path.

Gary Pernell

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

Tom Schlesinger