Stephen Fry Quotes
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?Stephen Fry
Quotes to Explore
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler -
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber -
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale -
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang -
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
Rahul Dravid
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Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
Barry Mann -
I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman -
The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.
Yvon Chouinard -
. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.
Ted Dekker -
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Andrew Bernstein -
Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
Brian Tracy
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The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.
Brian Tracy -
It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.
Amandla Stenberg -
It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.
Marc Benioff -
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.
David Lewis-Williams -
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
Ernest Hemingway
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
Larry Fitzgerald -
One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.
Pankaj Patel -
One thing I look forward to is seeing new places and new people.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony -
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
Norman MacCaig -
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?
Stephen Fry