Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote: "I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George <br />W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The U.S. has no plans to conduct a nuclear test. President [George W.] Bush supports a continued mor...
IRENE SMITH

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if ...
ELIZABETH THORNTON

It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have ...
RICK ROSNER

The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scor...
JOHN CURTIN

In the past, our special ed kids sometimes took out-of-level tests, so a high school kid might take ...
DAVE WILMES

And remember, this was a president [George W. Bush] who was selected by the Supreme Court rather tha...
BARBRA STREISAND

Invertebrates like Nancy Pelosi and Neville Chamberlain are the fools who men like Adolf Hitler and ...
BOBBY W. MILLER

I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars&...
LILI SIMMONS

We have to get student testing done by the end of the week and then testing companies pick tests up ...
BOB HARRY

A score of over 300 is a very high score. I took the test myself, based on what people were going th...
DR. JOSEPHINE BEEBE

At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, t...
ELIOT SCHREFER

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teacher...
ROBERT STERNBERG

There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affe...
AVIJEET DAS

Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers hav...
PAMELA MEYER

In general there is an increasing use of psychometric tests, and some are designed to test things li...
ALLAN SCHWEYER

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist f...
HOWARD GARDNER

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are ...
JAMES FENTON

Tests. Tests always ruin the karma of game day. You're thinking more about the game than the test an...
ERIC WOMACK

The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being li...
PATRICK LENCIONI

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimen...
ROBERT D. HARE

Like we've always said, we have a lot of guys that score from anywhere on the court at any time. Our...
DUANE PETERSON

We give the Terra Nova test so ISTEP is not the first big test they take. Terra Nova tests similar s...
LINDA STEPHENSON

These schools have seen a drop in suspensions and expulsions, a rise in GPAs, a rise in test scores,...
JOSEPH KRETOVICS

George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history.
HELEN THOMAS

I would like to score earlier in the game (than the third inning), but if the bottom of the order ge...
AMY KRAUSE

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-...
PETER YORK

Tom DeLay and the other leadership of the House of Representatives are not going to impeach George W...
BOB GRAHAM

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions,...
ANONYMOUS

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is wagi...
MOLLY IVINS

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?

Pe...
PAUL ARDEN

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

We destroyed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and Allah ordered us to... punish everyone who ...
AL-QAEDA

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist att...
HENRY KISSINGER

The students will be the ones conducting the chemical tests. These kits are created for sixth-grader...
GREG EGNOR

The goal was to try and keep them in the 50s. But when you've got an outfit like that with so many p...
WILLIE SCHLARMAN

He's the one who makes us work. He bails us out, and finds ways to score or get the ball to other gu...
ARCHIE CARLYLE

There is sort of this fear what if they score the tests wrong?
ALEXANDRA JIANG

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT

The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT

I knew that the testing lab was a great place to gain efficiency based on my previous startup experi...
BRAD SIIMS

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who...
BARNABY C. KEENEY

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell...
BARNABY C. KEENEY

You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, ...
NORA ROBERTS

Coached students are only slightly more likely to have test score gains than those who were not coac...
CAREN SCOROPANOS

Not all people who are smart, are wise, yet all who are wise are indeed smart.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw ...
MICKEY MANTLE

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I've seen both upbeat and slower music score really high. If it's obvious someone is doing a classic...
DAVID MOSER

Americans need to know that we support them and will assist them in any way. It's imperative that ou...
STOCKWELL DAY

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and ...
MICKEY MANTLE

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C...
JILL SCOTT

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer ...
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON

If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the s...
TOM HAYDEN

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
Doctor: 'Lots of pl...
RUSSELL T. DAVIES

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
LEVON HELM

Customers who score high propensity are typically approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to ...
TIM BARNES

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high scho...
RONALD REAGAN

Studies have shown that children who eat breakfast, perform better in school, perform better on test...
DIANE SYLVESTER

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio...
JOE QUEENAN

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repai...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfor...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but...
SAMUEL BUTLER

I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score ve...
PHILIP K. DICK

[If the foregoing was simply insensitive, George W. Bush's comparison of the first U.S. war against ...
BILL SAMMON

I think so. It varies. Like one game, one person will score high and (opponents) are like (next time...
CYNTRELL ROBINSON

Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN

Foolish people can never realize that the more they ignore a person who is truly nice, the more he w...
ANUJ SOMANY

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wa...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good...
CHRISTINA ROMER

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant....
PAT SUMMERALL

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

She was more of a take-it-to-the-hole kind of player in high school. In high school, she was the go-...
GARY FIFIELD

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU

But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

You don't fight America…You get America’s Democratic and Republican parties to fight each other....
JAMES MORRIS ROBINSON

To date, all the tests are negative. Seventeen people have been immunized ... and there are others i...
DAVID JENSEN

To date, all the tests are negative, ... Seventeen people have been immunized ... and there are othe...
DAVID JENSEN

If you look at how our schools perform on standardized tests, I think you certainly make the case th...
JEFF LANDIN

I expect the German chancellor to personally talk with (United States) president (George W.) Bush an...
GERHARD SCHROEDER

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as Presid...
STEPHEN KINZER

The most dramatic difference was evident on tests measuring reaction time and speed: NFL athletes de...
DR. ELLIOTT PELLMAN

You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a f...
MOLLY IVINS

They both score a lot of points and they both can shoot. You just have to know where each one is on ...
LEE ROGERS

I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM

They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC

I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC

I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW

The courses are totally different. You can score on this course if the winds are low. It was perfect...
LOREN ROBERTS

I don't size up their grades or their board scores. Because in America today, that's just an...
MICKEY DREXLER

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory scho...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are peopl...
C.S. LEWIS

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days follow...
RON FOURNIER

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