If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.