"We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."

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Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”

Lewis Terman

#Achievement Quotes #Intellect Quotes

“Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.”
“I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.”
“It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.”
“One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?" "No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too." "I'll take that as a yes," I said.”
“We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.”
“I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.”
“A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.”

Source : Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.184, IT Revolution
“We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.”

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