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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Intelligence
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
Power
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
God
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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Personal Development
"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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Personal Development
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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Personal Development
"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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Personal Development
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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Personal Development
"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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Personal Development
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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