Great man Quote by Barbara Walters Download Open image “A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.” — Barbara Walters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man Intelligence
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.'… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I was trying to do everything I possibly could,up until this morning, when I was betrayed, to protect her. We gave her time to… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image