Tabatha Coffey Quotes

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.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.