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“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.”

Problem Deals Sun Rights Exercise Intellectual Property Ran Buying Capitalist Property Rights Larry Intellectual Property

Author:Scott McNealy

“It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.”

Exercise Intellectual Call Me Pointless Masturbation

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.”

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.”

“I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

People Ifs World I Can Purpose Found Moral Economy Exercise Benefits Intellectual Weight Importance Clever Practicals Great Men Tenacity Cleverness Frugality

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.”

Thinking Loss Decision Situation Seeing Minutes Exercise Ten Intellectual Gains Rational Bridges Being The Best Calculations Ratios Weighing New Situations

Author:Warren Buffett

“Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.”

Men Style He Man Exercise Intellectual Faculty Reunion

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.”

Thinking Writing Character Stories Exercise Intellectual Inches

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.”

“To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.”

Needs Self Interest Decision Company Practice Journey Honesty Exercise Directors Intellectual Prejudice Constant Destination Self Interest Intellectual Honesty

Author:Mervyn King

“The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.”

Turns Influence Exercise Activity Intellectual Difficulty Increase Motive Commanders

Book:On War

Source: On War

“The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.”

Turns Can Do Worst Fashion Exercise Intellectual Sanity Worst Things Conceit

Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.”

Atheism Exercise Intellectual Contempt

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.”

Real Games Loses Memories Loss Levels Exercise Intellectual Built Faculty Exceptional Mazes Something Real

Author:Philip K. Dick

“Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.”

Winning Goal Honest Exercise Intellectual Trials

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

“What is work going to look like in the future? How are Democrats going to be able to give people a sense that they can have good jobs, or if they don't have good jobs, maybe they have to have universal basic income - we have to have a longer discussion about the future. This is not just an intellectual exercise; it's an exercise about giving people hope.”

People Giving Exercise Intellectual Democrat Discussion Good Job

Author:Michael Kazin

“You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.”

Thinking Culture Style Exercise Intellectual Point Of View

Author:Robin Pecknold

“It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.”

Jobs Film Perspective Exercise Intellectual Compare

Author:Steven Spielberg

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

Inspirational Exercise Intellectual Intelligent Devoted

Book:The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…

Source: The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”

Writing Heart Poet Exercise Intellectual Critics

Author:Erica Jong