Slow Thinker Quotes

#1. It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Julie Christie

#2. I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

Gregory Maguire

#3. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

Carl Honore

#4. Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

Susan Winebrenner

#5. Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Nelson Mandela

#6. At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.

Maxine Greene

#7. Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

#8. Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

John Pfeiffer

#9. Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#10. The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer ... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Joe Nichols

#11. He must know he held a devastating piece of information in his hands. Somewhere behind those fathomless black eyes, his sharp mind was clicking away rapidly, trying to decide how best to use what he knew.

Cassandra Clare

#12. When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

Noel Clarke

#13. That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

Kathryn Stockett

#14. Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

William Landay

#15. And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

Jo Brand

#16. A change is always nice.

Euripides

#17. In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.

Rutger Hauer

#18. All [people] are intolerant ... Only they're intolerant of different things.

Joan D. Vinge