No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. — Daniel Dennett
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
A smart girl leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
Good atmosphere and smart people can accomplish a lot. — Jim Simons
Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. — Ryan Deiss
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. — Russell Simmons
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. — Brandon Mull
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice — Gordon B. Hinckley
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. — Gracie Allen
Polish person is smart after the damage is done. — Polish Proverbs
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams
Short Smart Quotes
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me — Nipsey Hussle
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough. — Zaha Hadid
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. — Ronald Reagan
It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep. — Ida Rolf
Smart Image Quotes
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. — Albert Einstein
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men. — Colin Chapman
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. — Carrie Fisher
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart. — Karen Horney
You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart. — Gabrielle Union
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. — Bill Bowerman
The smarter you get, the less you speak.
Work Smart Quotes
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart? — Chet Baker
A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man. — Taeyang
I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic. — Michael Jackson
You are too smart to worry and too cute to care.
If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression. — Robert M. Sapolsky
You have to work long, smart, and hard to become successful. — Tom Bilyeu
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast. — Amber Valletta
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. — Byron Dorgan
Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem... — Lewis Black
The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go. — Bill Smith
Work hard. Work smart. Perseverance is everything. It allows you to create and do things you wouldn’t otherwise think you could achieve. — Micky Watkins
Smart People Quotes
When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you
never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's
what I learned from selling crack. — Snoop Dogg
Even fools seem smart when they are quiet.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. — John Wooden
When the world is predictable you need smart people.
When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. — Henry Mintzberg
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinkng. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. — Mitch Hedberg
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. — John Dominic Crossan
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? — Scott Adams
Being Smart Quotes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. — John C. Maxwell
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. — Joan Robinson
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do — John Ruskin
Rumors excite the stupid, facts excite the smart.
You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me. — James Stewart
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories. — Albert Einstein
People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money. — Chris Voss
Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
Be afraid of a stupid friend, not of a smart enemy. — Turkish Proverbs
I think it's about being really smart about hitting the right consumer product spaces at the right time. — Jake Paul
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful. — Jurgen Klopp
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — J. K. Rowling
Get Smart Quotes
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders. — Erwin Rommel
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. — Daniel Goleman
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. — Steven Wright
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck." — Rodney Dangerfield
Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you.
There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. — J. K. Rowling
We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong. — Britt Nicole
Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away. — Tucker Carlson
I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable. — Robert Griffin III
You Are Smart Quotes
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. — Richard P. Feynman
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian Kernighan
You're braver than you believe, and stronger that you seem, and smarter than you think.
Strive to be smart enough to design your life in a way that fool-proofs you against those domains in your life in which you are dumb. — Robert Breedlove
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi
Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time. — Farrah Gray
Let's be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. — Hakeem Olajuwon
You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man — Kathleen Turner
Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are. — Jeremy Clarkson
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart. — Pierre Trudeau
Smart Thinking Quotes
I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn - it's just like all of us - some guys can learn electronics, some of us can't. Some people can learn something else, some of us can't. I mean, we're all wired differently. — Bill Belichick
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to. — James Carville
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Intelligence is a way of acting. If you act intelligently you are smart. Regardless of your IQ.
The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level. I would rather understand the basics really well than memorize all kinds of complicated concepts I can’t stitch together and can’t rederive from the basics. — Naval Ravikant
People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite. — Naval Ravikant
One of the reasons that really smart people often have trouble being negotiators—they’re so smart they think they don’t have anything to discover. — Chris Voss
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't. — Don Van Vliet
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. — Stephen King
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. — Andy Rooney
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. — Suzanne Vega
Smart Women Quotes
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women. — P. J. O'Rourke
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. — Shakuntala Devi
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. — Gilda Radner
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. — Natalie Portman
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. — Susan Wojcicki
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to. — Sayings
She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man. — Irene Parlby
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants. — Hadley Freeman
Very Smart Quotes
For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me. — Usher
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman. — Albert Einstein
I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked! — Julianne Moore
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. — James Marsters
The superfluous, a very necessary thing. — Voltaire
Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him. — 2 Chainz
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. — Steve Jobs
The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests. — Tariq Ramadan
Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic! — Bette Midler
Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen. — Robert Muldoon
Good Smart Quotes
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. — Vance Havner
Other people will push you towards the things you’re good at, too. Because your smart bosses, co-workers and investors will realize you’re world-class in this one thing. — Naval Ravikant
Good people help others with no concern for themselves. Smart people help others while also helping themselves. Evil people hurt others to help themselves. Dumb people hurt themselves and others. — Balaji Srinivasan
It just starts in a world you don't know too much about, and he's so good at using that to amplify the mystery, but also the feeling that you're smart enough to figure this out. I love that.” — Duncan Trussell
I am not smart. I am not good-looking. I don't have — Changpeng Zhao
Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.' — Keith Olbermann
I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it. — Schoolboy Q
After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up. — Bill Russell
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? — Philip Zimbardo
Smart Business Quotes
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. — Janet Napolitano
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. — Colin Davis
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. — Peter Cundill
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful. — Pierre Omidyar
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need. — Richard Louv
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week. — Lori Greiner
...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful. — Larry Burkett
The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much. — Steve Jobs
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. — Robert Kiyosaki
Over Smart Quotes
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. — Dorothy Parker
There are some technologies I like, in formal security, cryptography like bullet-proofs, simplicity formal provable smart-contracting, some privacy tech. I don't like to name coins though some have deployed tech I invented over the years. — Adam Back
It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into. — Alisa Valdes
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. — Yul Brynner
You have to be smart. The easy days are over. — Robert Kiyosaki
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! — William Makepeace Thackeray
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero. — Warren Buffett
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again. — Ray Romano
I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude. — Amy Adams
You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo. — Arlene Dahl
Smart Person Quotes
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. — Naval Ravikant
Learning more is a smart person’s favorite way to procrastinate. — Mark Manson
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office. — George W. Bush
Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. — Julia Quinn
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. — James Surowiecki
You know, I'm, like, a smart person. — Donald Trump
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. — Steve Wozniak
Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. — Michio Kushi
Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight. — Christopher Paul Curtis
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. — Norman Mailer
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home. — Adeline Yen Mah
Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value. — Philip Kotler
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. — Marilyn Monroe
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