47 Quotes About Acumen

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

If we don’t use our minds, we can be certain that someone else will.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

Half of the time I think I know what I’m doing. The other half of the time I’m doubting that I really knew what I was doing the first half of the time. So that leaves me turning to God all of the time.

I don’t think that there are many true leaders. For a true leader possesses both the seasoned acumen and the utterly fearless temperament to slice through the boggy agendas and the cumbersome biases that lesser people have come to justify as wholly good and impeachably righteous simply because these lesser things have become the whole of their calling. And no true leader would ever lead himself or anyone else to such a pitiful place as that.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.