Quotes About Intelligence

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

I love carelessly, live respectfully, speak intelligently, work passionately, trust recklessly, get hurt easily and bounce back effortlessly.

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.