#succes

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border -like a toll- most of the intelligence it contained. In youth we're twofold. Our innate intelligence, which may be considerable, coexists with the stupidity of our inexperience, which forms a second, lesser intelligence. Only later on do the two unite. That's why youth always blunders - not because of its inexperience, but because of it's non-unity. Today the only course left for the man of superior intelligence is abdication. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#inspirational

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ↗

— Ed Parker

#accomplishments #fulfilled #intelligent #intelligent man #learn

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. ↗

— Nancy Kress

#self-reliance #success #intelligence

Intelligence is capacity, smart is what you do with it ↗

— Alamgir Mand my brother

#inspirational

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#helping #humanity #kindness #life #success

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inaction #life #motivational #success #life

You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift... YOU! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#be-yourself #happiness #inspirational #kindness #motivational

Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact. ↗

— Samantha Young

#life #rough #success #life