Terman Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals, — Lewis Terman

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated. — Lewis Terman

Toward the end of his life, Fred Terman wrote that he had no regrets: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record. — Eric Weiner

Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time! — Timothy Pina

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. — Mitchell Baker

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence? — Agatha Christie

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future. — Heath Ledger

My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest
a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side. — Angela Carter

They're ruining the city, aren't they," remarked Rafe. "The backpackers. — Caleb Crain

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. — Nan Fairbrother

We're going to swim it."
I flipped forward a few pages. "Underwater."
Jenks blinked. "Rache, you gotta stop using that sugar substitute.Under the water? Do you know how cold it is? — Kim Harrison

In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and — Malcolm Gladwell

It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become. — Lewis Terman

I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore, — J.K. Rowling

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him. — Deena Nicole Cortese

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing. — Caroline Lawrence

If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown," he says, and raises his thin eyebrows. "So keep swimming, right? — Pierce Brown

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels