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Quote by Luisa Tetrazzini

“I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.”

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Luisa Tetrazzini, an Italian soprano, was born on June 29, 1871, and passed away on April 28, 1940. She was renowned for her unique voice and exquisite singing skills on the opera stage in the early 20th century. more

“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.”

“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”

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Author:Alfred Binet

“We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Achievement Intellect

Book:Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden

Source: Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden

Quote by Luisa Tetrazzini

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