I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one...
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and...
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and...
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You...
When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when...
I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where...
As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of understanding.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.
Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man...
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The child is father to the man.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...