He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies… Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it.
Enrique Vila-MatasTag: talent words intelligence reading books literature
My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: life intelligence reality-of-life
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan SimmonsTag: intelligence passion mobs
She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature.
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Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.
Tag: intelligence learning appearances limitations
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligent and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn...Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love...Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.
Daniel KeyesTag: intelligence charlie flowers-for-algernon
One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.
George HammondTag: intelligence popularity
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
John FowlesTag: intelligence atheist coward agnostic
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen KellerTag: intelligence thinking intellectualism
Some were made with skill and intelligence
Some with passion and charm
But they, they were raw, and strived to remain so…
Tag: intelligence passion skill charm raw
Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
Mario StingerTag: intelligence humility atheism universe earth pride
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