Dorothy Day Quotes

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

It is better to do too much than to do too little.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The only failure is not to try.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.