Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work… I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesnt make you a star. Emotional intelligence can. – Warren Bennis
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. – Freeman Dyson
When youre 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when youre 21 and youve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they werent really good. OK, lets be honest. A lot of them were crap. – Patrick Rothfuss
