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And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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