Quote by Todd Solondz
The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind

The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. – Todd Solondz

Other quotes by Todd Solondz

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for ones physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. – Todd Solondz

Category:
Health
Read Quote

So far, at least, I havent found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. – Todd Solondz

Category:
sad
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

Well, I think theres a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. – John Major

Category:
Intelligence

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson

Category:
Intelligence

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. – Alistair Cooke

Category:
Intelligence

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. – Lewis Cass

Category:
Action

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. – Kate Adie

Category:
Freedom

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Happiness

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage. – Kate Adie

Category:
Marriage