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The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. -- William Hedgcock Webster
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. -- Gijs de Vries
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. -- Vladimir Putin
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. -- Markus Wolf
The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security. -- Jane Harman
It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret. -- John le Carre
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence. -- Millard Drexler
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -- Linus Torvalds
I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved. -- Clare Balding
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles. -- Michael Mandelbaum
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. -- Howard Gardner
The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences. -- Ronald Kessler
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. -- George Tenet
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there. -- George J. Mitchell
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors. -- Mike Leigh
We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. -- Michael Chertoff
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. -- Christine Baranski
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. -- Aldrich Ames
I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. -- Paul Cellucci
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. -- Howard Gardner
To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear. -- Enrico Caruso
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process. -- Eckhart Tolle
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence, -- Millard Drexler
Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown. -- Roberto Llamas
Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic. -- Anson Mount
Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence. -- Robert Greene
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. -- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization. -- Calvin Coolidge
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. -- Albert Camus
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work. -- Robert J. Eaton
I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. -- Howard Gardner
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. -- Maria Montessori
Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state. -- Barack Obama
Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them, -- Julian Assange
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence. -- Marya Mannes
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. -- Evelyn Waugh
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic. -- Marco Tempest
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion. -- Marilyn Johnson

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