Wasted Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

A day without love and gratitude is a day without significance and wasted. — Debasish Mridha

She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence. — Elena Ferrante

A very beautiful day without love, kindness, and gratitude is a very wasted day. — Debasish Mridha

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. — R. A. Butler

War without end. Well, — James S.A. Corey

In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup implied misguided priorities. Like you thought how things looked mattered, instead of how they worked. We liked to look at attractive people. We expected it of our movie stars and TV characters. But we did not respect it. We knew physical attractiveness was inversely correlated with intelligence, because look at us. — Max Barry

Being that all of my intelligence is wasted in the classroom, my common sense is at exactly level zero. — Kandi Steiner

there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop. — Carol S. Dweck

Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages. — Lorrie Moore

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves. — John W. Thompson

* Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted. — Shiv Khera

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? — Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting. — John C. Maxwell

was thinking hard about something. He loved her intelligence. He told her that she was wasted in teaching, that she should be out there doing something for herself. — Sheila O'Flanagan

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can. — Rutina Wesley

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good — Nina Simone

Excellence is a lifestyle, not a coincidence. — Ogwo David Emenike

Say,' I said. "What brings you out here at this hour of the morning, for a thing like this?"

'The bus,' he said. — Hunter S. Thompson

how awful to never be allowed to fail — Brenna Yovanoff

cry so strange that it frightened him. — Hans Christian Andersen

True intelligence is pure love which does not exclude or waste anything.
Not even a grain of sand is excluded or wasted. There are no exceptions in what is set free and in what is in service to this setting free.
Life, the formless, form and fragrance, knows exactly what it is doing.
Life is pure, unfiltered Intelligence flowing as whatever shape is now appearing.
It is alive and it is all calling us Home.
Do you hear the grain of sand calling your name?
It says, "Love."
Do you sense the truth of it?
If not, lean in and 'listen' again -
this time with the whole of your being. — Dhyana Stanley

Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned. — L.R. Olson