#act

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#intelligence #intelligence

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#limitations #practicality #reading #work #intelligence

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. ↗

— William James

#intellect #spirituality #intelligence

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#always #breath #character #character actors #come

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#ideas #intelligence #intelligence

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use. ↗

— Robert Greene

#internalization #practical-application #quality #intelligence

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

Your outlook affects your outcome ↗

— John Paul Warren

#leadership

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#wisdom #leadership

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#leadership-characteristics #leadership-development #leading-vs-following #leadership