Top 25 Thinker Quotes of 85 - Page 4

Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.220, Penguin

My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.

James A. Champy

Training, Done, Thinker

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Haruki Murakami

Years, Thinker

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Shortcuts, Primitive, Thinker

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.106, e-artnow

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 further or adapt it in some way.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Want, Way, Thinker

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Gregg Easterbrook

Writing, Ukulele, Thinker

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

Emily Barton

Thinking, Culture, Thinker

Source: therumpus.net

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, Thinker, Knows

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

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Edith Hamilton

Odds, Planets, Thinker

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Earl Butz

Trying, Negative, Thinker

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Mitchell

Political, Thinker

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

Book, Sixteen, Freethinker

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Bill Moyers

Doers, Thinker

"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, June 8, 2011.