Kenny Guinn Quotes

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

... common sense is very rare.

Common sense is often underrated.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Wisdom ofttimes consists of knowing what to do next.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.