Quotes About Intelligence

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.

Steve Nash is just so smart. He's one of the most down-to-earth people you'll ever meet.

Having Steve Nash running your team makes you a lot smarter.

As a player, you get to the stage where you realise that you are not 25 anymore - and can't play the way you used to. The intelligent players adapt - and Steven Gerrard has the ability to do that. He is an excellent passer of the ball, possesses an intelligent football brain, and has great vision.

Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.