Quotes About IQ

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Schools don't teach people to reason thoroughly; they select the applicants with higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are able to generate more reasons.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ. Genetic research suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

Dr. Liam Hudson, a British psychologist that headed up Cambridge's Research Unit of Intellectual Development in the sixties, compared IQ to basketball. If you're five foot five, your prospects of becoming even an NBA bench warmer are slim-to-none. The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James

IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled"). Similarly, a person with an IQ of 130 ("near genius") has a significant upper hand in life when compared to a person with an IQ of 100 ("average").

IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled").

Well, a tremendous amount of research has been done into the scientific correlation between IQ and real-life success, and a very different picture has emerged.

the relation between IQ and success follows the law of diminishing returns.

asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. "Of course it would." The cultural correlation is undeniable: we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed

You inherit not your IQ but your ability to develop a high IQ under certain environmental circumstances. How does one parcel that one into nature and nurture? It is frankly impossible.

The TV is showing another of those reality things, a program that pimps a bunch of good-looking young women to a hunky bachelor who looks like he might have the IQ of a floor lamp.

The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.

Yes, you read that right: if we take the Flynn Effect at face value, a typical person today is smarter than 98 percent of the people in the good old days of 1910. To state it in an even more jarring way, a typical person of 1910, if time-transported forward to the present, would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation.

I'm a basketball player - I rely on instincts and IQ.

I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Jako kdyby tÄ› zajímalo její srdce! Jsi snad kardiolog? To ur?itÄ›. Ta holka má IQ dortový polevy.

It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points.

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

Every time I'm in a private interview with teams, I have an opportunity to get on the board, and every team's been impressed with my football IQ.

But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

My IQ is 154. It was measured because my father was desperately hoping that they could determine if I had anything wrong psychologically so that I could be locked up the way one of his sisters had.