Quotes About Intelligence

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.

I like guys who can use strategy, not just tough guys.

I think the fact that I have a solid head on my shoulders and a brain inside that head gives me an edge over my competitors. It helps when I am giving interviews, charting out strategy for my career and choosing scripts.

It's important to have the right strategy. I can't commit to things or fight like I used to. I can't just bang it out. I have to be more intelligent in training and in fighting.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

One of the things we do not want is to become a complete fortress. This is not going to happen with military on every street corner or armed police officers everywhere. We do not want that so we have to be intelligent in our response and to be proportionate in our response.

With my fighters, there's no excuses like, 'Hey, listen, he's a dumb guy. Came from the mean streets of somewhere. He's just not all that bright.' These are educated guys, most of them went to college, they have families, children, etc. These are smart, rational people I'm dealing with.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.