Ability Quote by Robert J. Shiller

Focus is more important than intelligence.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."---Irrational Exuberance”

— Robert J. Shiller

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific,…

— Esther Hicks

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when…

— Daniel Kahneman

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

— George Santayana

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

— Scott Adams

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

— Bruce Pandolfini

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

— David J. Schwartz

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

— Anonymous

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

— Robert Sternberg

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

— Alfred North Whitehead