#gen

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#fellow #generally #i #i am #minded

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#better #first #founded #generation #good

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intelligence #kindness #intelligence

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#anything #coming #conviction #decent #done

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#fortune #genuine #happy #held #his

Ever since Roberta Wohlstetter’s pathbreaking study of why the United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor 50 years ago, both academics and members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have made significant progress in understanding intelligence failures. About how to correct these errors and do better we know much less, however, and it is to this subject that this volume makes a major contribution. --Foreword to Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action ↗

— Robert Jervis

#intelligence-analysis #intelligence-books #intelligence

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #eating #food #funny #humor

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments. ↗

— Carlo M. Cipolla

#intelligence

العبقري يخترق حجاب المألوف .. ويخرج من أسْر العادة .! ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#intelligence #thinking-with-a-great-mind #intelligence