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“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”

Ifs Mean Brain Intelligent Intelligence Smart People Smartness Active Minds Funniness

Author:Amber Valletta

“The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.”

Mean Matter Problem Pay Attention Intelligent Critics Primaries Pay Attention Working It Bounce

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.”

People World Want Mean Done Bigs Stuff Activity Intelligent Curiosity Museums Hiking Going Out Big Things Camping Physical Activity Camping Out

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.”

“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Different Action Chance Intelligent Response Observation Suggestions Emancipation Inference Fatality

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.”

“Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.”

Mean Matter Conditions Policy Intelligent Legislation Improvisation Patchwork

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.”

People Mean Action Wise Intelligent Reasonable

Author:Andre Maurois

“You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.”

People Knows Want Mean Long Facts Jobs Pay Attention Opinion Trouble Stupid Information Humility Approach Criticism Intelligent Critics Enthusiasm Combination Uninformed

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee