Carl Sagan Quotes

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.