I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
Jeff Foxworthy

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
~ Stephen King

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
~ Daniel Goleman

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
~ Robert Sternberg

New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries.
~ Robert Muldoon

Obviously, you check that she’s safe, she’s clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that’s going to help them through life. It’ll help them walk, but you can’t pull them out and check their IQ or anything.
~ Matthew Ashford

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~ Alan Kay

The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
~ Denis Waitley

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
~ Robert Sternberg

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
~ Everett Dirksen

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
~ Irwin Corey

Willingness to learn from each moment–as opposed to defending ourselves by stonewalling, explaining, justifying, withdrawing, blaming–is much more important than IQ, family background or education. The great advantage of openness-to-learning is that you’re in charge of it at all times. You can choose to shift out of defensiveness into genuine curiosity at any moment.

~ Gay & Katie Hendricks Quotes

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life.

~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

~ Timothy Ferriss

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organization, or the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in him. He inclines to do something which is easy to him, and good when it is done, but which no other man can do. He has no rival. For the more truly he consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other. His ambition is exactly proportioned to his powers. The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call. The pretence that he has another call, a summons by name and personal election and outward “signs that mark him extraordinary, and not in the roll of common men,” is fanaticism, and betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes