What's the difference between doer and thinker?

Doer


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
  • (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accompanying articles (Saffen, D.W., Presper, K.A., Doering, T.L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (2) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
  • (3) The documents contained an undated “personal message” from Trump to new enrollees at the school: “Only doers get rich.
  • (4) Results indicate that when the harm-doers apologized, as opposed to when they did not, the victim-subjects refrained from severe aggression against them.
  • (5) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
  • (6) The chancellor made his pitch for Britain's greying vote in a package for "makers, doers and savers" designed to complete the repair job after the deepest recession of the modern era, warning that cuts would continue long into the next parliament.
  • (7) Once, Whitehall might have looked to local government for a "doer".
  • (8) The nucleotide sequence of Escherichia coli ptsI indicates four -SH residues per subunit (Saffen, D. W., Presper, K. A., Doering, T. L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (9) I’m a doer, not a talker,” Bush said at an event in Wolfeboro, reviving digs he has taken at senators for spending more time delivering floor speeches than passing meaningful legislation.
  • (10) Situation attributions were preferred when the harm-doer was white, and person (dispositional) attributions were preferred in the black-protagonist conditions.
  • (11) Barnett said it was “yet to be determined” whether online advocates of these acts were “the doers … or they’re just the keyboard activists who light a fuse under somebody else”.
  • (12) This will be a meeting of "doers", men and women willing to fight the Obama administration and its perceived attack on US free enterprise and unfettered wealth.
  • (13) (“He says he is the thinker, and I am the doer,” Regina told me later.
  • (14) To help with this some personal budget users, frustrated by the talk of people who don't know enough about what it is really like, have formed the Doers Club.
  • (15) Finally, three of the last 25 prizes have gone to what could be termed doers of good works, like the micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in 2006 .
  • (16) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
  • (17) The delightful triumph of the "doers" in Rehn's suture of a stab wound and Souttar's intracardiac mitral valve manipulations is saluted.
  • (18) I'm an energetic doer, and should be a sales rep just like Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis, Madonna or Jack Nicholson.
  • (19) Hezza is a (mildly dyslexic) doer, not a thinker, but he understands the restless dynamic of capitalism and is not naive about its weaknesses.
  • (20) We have a prime minister who first, believes in climate change and, secondly, is a doer.

Thinker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
  • (2) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (3) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
  • (4) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
  • (5) Anyone who attended one of the many conferences dedicated to his work observed how conscientiously he listened to every paper (whether by a famous thinker or a graduate student), took careful notes, and asked polite but searching questions.
  • (6) Results indicated abstract thinkers had a better decision-making process than concrete thinkers and made more health promoting decisions.
  • (7) Having an independent thinker at Westminster is what the people of Brighton Pavilion would want.
  • (8) Ed Miliband's vision of bringing down the cost of living is insufficiently bold for the country, according to one organiser of a letter from thinkers on the left warning Labour against playing it safe in the party's election manifesto.
  • (9) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
  • (10) In June a network of young economics students, thinkers and writers set up Rethinking Economics , a campaign group to challenge what they say is the predominant narrative in the subject.
  • (11) Theilhaber was an original thinker and a prolific writer.
  • (12) Morsi refused to give the power of attorney to the lawyer secured for him by colleagues outside prison – Selim al-Awa, a prominent Islamist thinker who also ran for president last year.
  • (13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
  • (14) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
  • (15) We have to pass and in my view we have to pass it at a higher level of standard than any university in the land, otherwise there is no point in having us.” In many ways, the Crick is the natural home for big thinkers.
  • (16) As Seldon put it in his 2007 book Blair Unbound: “Balls had no respect for Blair as an economist or a thinker, and assumed that he merely took his script from Heywood.” A politician who has worked closely with Heywood says: “To be very good at being a private secretary or cabinet secretary, you have to be very close to the boundary between civil service work and politics, but not step over it.
  • (17) The Labour-aligned historian and thinker RH Tawney wrote those words, in 1932.
  • (18) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
  • (19) By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse.
  • (20) Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, describes Stitzer as "a very deep thinker about values, and about doing the right thing, both as an individual in his personal life and in the business he leads.