Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
“The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today’s civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Have a positive mentality; think it's possible. You can build on something little… you can create something little from nothing… and this… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock's life, he is smarter than he was the day before. — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an… — David Duffield Copy Share Image
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean,… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.'… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image