"Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Insteadâ€¦the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible."

-- James Surowiecki

#Smart Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If I donâ€™t practice for a day, I know it. If I donâ€™t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I donâ€™t practice for three days, the public knows it.”
“I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.”

Source : "Now on PBS" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.
“The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.”
“I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect.”

Source : "Mma Fighter Herschel Walker Talks About His Diet, Ballet, and the NFL Playoffs". Examiner.com, January 20, 2011.
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”

Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
“The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.”

Source : "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.
“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”
“The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.”

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