#intel

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#employee #experiment #fail #failing #him

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#beautiful #capitalism #decadent #deliver #found

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#intellect #minus #vulgarity #will

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#character #emotional #facet #how #innately

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#brain #creature #finding #human #human body

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#aware #career #depression #during #experience

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it! ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#held #him #honestly #i #i do

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#ah #i #intelligent #keep #know

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#her #i #idea #intelligence #mother