John Sterling Quotes

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

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• I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Never
  • Gun
  • Intelligence

• That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Great
  • Looking
  • Intelligence

• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Think
  • Always
  • Emotional

• The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Intelligence
  • Attracted

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Intelligence
  • Stronger

• Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Intelligence
  • Transparency

• Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Intelligence
  • Head

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Life
  • Intelligence
  • Depth

• What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Wife
  • Natural
  • Instinct

• When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for "refudiate," which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was "misunderestimate."

  

  Ben Zimmer
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Politician

• We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Baby
  • Ends

• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Said

• I'm here, I'm not queer, and I'm not going away.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Here
  • Away
  • Queer

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Think
  • Child
  • Prison

• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

  

  John Sterling
  • Intelligence
  • Instinct
  • Self-Consciousness