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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

Life, Mirror, Thinks

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Memory, Simply

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

Wife, Idiot, Dreamer

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

Judge, Person, Him

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.
Pablo Neruda

Beauty, Great, Truth

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Person, Thinks, Consistent

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

Away, Paradox, Professor

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Great, Nothing

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

End, Thought, Call

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Chauncey Depew

Fear, Mind, Important

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
Temple Grandin

Brain, Google, Images

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
Temple Grandin

Music, Sports, Bad

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Fear, Mind, Path

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan

Fight, Person, Reason

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume

Design, Stupid, Purpose

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy

Business, Creative, Create

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Venus Williams

Good, Win, Before

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
Russell Baker

War, Alone, Single

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Richard Adams

Men, Thoughts, Ideas

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
Allen West

Pretty, Military, United

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

Once, Interested, Fast

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored.
Haruki Murakami

Bored, Once, Interested

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

Good, Experience, Original

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley

Father, Deep, Black

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
Mos Def

Trying, Matter, Child

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer

Art, Practice, Medicine

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin

Original, Sin, Poet

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

Great, Political, Thought

I'm not a great deep political thinker.
David Mitchell

Great, Deep, Political

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

Change, Down, Working

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