Robert Sternberg Quotes

• Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

  Robert Sternberg

  Love, Work, Passion

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• The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

  Robert Sternberg

  Thinking, Essence, Knowing

  "It Will Be Hard To ‘Save Time’ In The New Year" by Richard C. Senelick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

  Robert Sternberg

  Doe, Success In Life, Academic

  Robert J. Sternberg (2011). “College Admissions for the 21st Century”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Unique, Recipes

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• If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

  Robert Sternberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Changing Environment

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• In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

  Robert Sternberg

  Order, Skills, Creative

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• Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.

  Robert Sternberg

  Ignorance, Practice, Missing

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• You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

  Robert Sternberg

  Betrayal, Hate, Passion

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• Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

  Robert Sternberg

  Jobs, Two, Dozen

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• The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

  Robert Sternberg

  Support, Stupidity, Dollars

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• I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

  Robert Sternberg

  Kids, Math, Groups

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• So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

  Robert Sternberg

  Children, Example, Disability

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• I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

  Robert Sternberg

  Psychology, Majors

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• I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

  Robert Sternberg

  Creative, Projects, Wells

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• There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

  Robert Sternberg

  Psychology, Obvious

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• And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

  Robert Sternberg

  Long, Population, Looks

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• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Stupid, School

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• But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

  Robert Sternberg

  Self Esteem, Done, Research

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• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Robert Sternberg

  Sorry, Book, School

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