"I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential."

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Source : "Sheryl Sandberg Joins Global Women Leaders in Tech to Demand Gender Equality" by Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

Daniel Tammet

#Believe Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.”

Source : Dennis Rainey (2003). “Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin
“My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.”
“I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.”
“It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums”

Source : "Benn announces 'stronger' climate change bill" by Rosalind Ryan, Elizabeth Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.
“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”
“Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.”
“There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.”

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