Elizabeth Zimmermann Quotes

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

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• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Think
  • Intelligence
  • Her

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• 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

• You are just your intelligence.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • You
  • Just
  • Intelligence

• 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

• 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

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• 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

• 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

• If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Why
  • May
  • Intelligence

• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Opinion

• It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.

  

  Elisabeth Marbury
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Justice

• Bernard Leach was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Beautiful
  • Wish
  • Incredibles

• I can sleep ANYWHERE! I just love to sleep.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Sleep
  • Anywhere
  • Love To Sleep

• Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Intelligence
  • Advantage
  • Knitters