Alfred Binet Quotes

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.

Alfred Binet

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• The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Men
  • History
  • New

• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Surprise
  • Engineers

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Different
  • Age
  • Youth

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Up
  • Cool

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

  

  Vanity
  • Money
  • Joke
  • Vanity

• The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Best

• My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • More
  • Roots
  • Beatles

• The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Change
  • Day

• Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Child
  • Story
  • Died

• Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Weird

• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.

  

  Alfred Binet
  • Purpose
  • Child
  • Intellectual