Thinker.

Confucius, an ancient Chinese thinker,

Ataturk was a lateral thinker.

He is an independent thinker.

I'm a slow thinker, though.

My son! The free thinker.

My father, very inventive, spatial thinker.

Okay, on your horse deep thinker.

She's a thinker. She's also a talker!

Between you and me, he's a shallow thinker.

Now, another kind of mind is the pattern thinker.

the Venus of Today and the Thinker of Tomorrow.

He thinks it's all right. Oh, he's a thinker.

No, I was speaking of earthmen. I meant the greatest philosopher or thinker.

Now, when kids get to be in third or fourth grade, you might see that this kid's going to be a visual thinker, drawing in perspective. Now, I want to emphasize that not every autistic kid is going to be a visual thinker.

This expert, Dr. Egelhoffer, the thinker from New York was giving Williams a sanity test in the sheriff's office.

Because think about it An animal is a sensory based thinker, not verbal thinks in pictures, thinks in sounds, thinks in smells.

As the eminent Italian thinker Norberto Bobbio has pointed out, the combination of these two are essential ingredients for meaningful intellectual reflection.

The infosphere from which the data are drawn may be global, but it is also English language only, which may explain why no Chinese thinker is represented in the top 100. There are three eligibility requirements one has to be working primarily as a thinker one must be known beyond one s own discipline and one must be influential.

Billions of events have occurred in your history that are related in time to yourself as the receiver, or yourself as the actor, yourself as the thinker, yourself as the mover.

In a discussion with friends from the African Union a few weeks back, I quoted a nineteenth century thinker who favoured radical reform reform that is permitted by reason and not permitted by the police.

Rudd s recommendations are undoubtedly ambitious. But, given his credentials he is a formidable Chinese linguist and creative policy thinker, with long and close personal relationships with key figures in both the US and China his argument must be taken seriously.

His thinking had a strong normative foundation, but his keen understanding of the world led him to approach foreign policy with a sense of humility and strategic patience. It is this rare combination of morality and perseverance that is his legacy as a foreign policy thinker and practitioner.

In that period, he has been Deputy Minister of Finance, founding Chairman of China s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, and now Minister of Finance. I have always found him to be direct, intellectually curious, a first rate analytical thinker, and a forward looking advocate of market based reforms.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia. True, American power will inevitably decline in relative terms as Asian giants such as China and India rise.

Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over. This opinion was expressed most clearly in a recent article by the conservative foreign policy thinker Robert Kagan.

In his first weeks in office, he announced a 10.3 trillion ( 116 billion) stimulus bill and appointed Haruhiko Kuroda, a determined, dynamic, and bold thinker, to head the Bank of Japan. Kuroda wasted little time in initiating expansionary monetary policies following in the footsteps of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England to help reflate the economy.

Indeed, a digital universal library would be even better than any earlier thinker could have imagined, because every work would be available to everyone, everywhere, at all times. And the library could include not only books and articles, but also paintings, music, films, and every other form of creative expression that can be captured in digital form.

Few people have understood this better than the Polish democratic activist and thinker Adam Michnik, one of the heroes who in the 1980 s helped to end the Communist dictatorship in his country. While other Poles demanded vengeful rough justice against the Communist rulers and their accomplices, Michnik counseled negotiation, compromise, and reconciliation, even with former oppressors.

Although a president s advisers may change, one would think that candidates would acknowledge them, if only to suggest where their own ideas come from after all, realistically what they are selling is their ability to judge and manage expertise, not their own ability as economists. This time, too, however, there was no mention by name of any deep economic thinker, or of any specific economic model.

And it is indeed farcical for China s government to try to suppress the yearning for freedom in the same brutal ways that Soviet era communists once did. For jailing Liu on the absurd charge of trying to overthrow the Chinese state is typical of the type of thinking found in the closed societies of twentieth century communism, where the state asserted its absolute right to judge every thought and every thinker.

Obviously, I'm the optimist and a big believer in what's going on here, but I think that as even a sober, you know, the most sober, disconnected thinker about this, looking at it from the side, has to conclude, based on the data, that with those kinds of economic forces at play, there is definitely going to be a sea change, and that change is going to be intensely disruptive relative to our concept of our very lives and being, and our identities, as well.