I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. — Carrie Fisher
I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing. — Pitbull
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
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. — Albert Einstein
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct. — Edith Piaf
The smart one will learn from the mistakes of others. — Hungarian Proverbs
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. — Tommy Chong
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it. — Unknown
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. — Daniel Dennett
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney
Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are. — Jeremy Clarkson
There are a lot of things that I lived in the street that helped me in the music business… I knew what characters not to have around me. — Jay-Z
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. — James Randi
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. — Brandon Mull
You Are Smart Quotes
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
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
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
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
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
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
The smarter you get, the less you speak.
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
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
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
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
You are too smart to worry and too cute to care.
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
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart. — Pierre Trudeau
You have to be smart. The easy days are over. — Robert Kiyosaki
Even fools seem smart when they are quiet.
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
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
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
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
Rumors excite the stupid, facts excite the smart.
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
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
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice — Gordon B. Hinckley
Failure is a detour, not a dead end street
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
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
With my fighters, there's no excuses like, 'Hey, listen, he's a dumb guy. Came from the mean streets of somewhere. He's just not all that bright.' These are educated guys, most of them went to college, they have families, children, etc. These are smart, rational people I'm dealing with. — Dana White
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
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.
Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement. — Jessica Valenti
We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it. — Sayings
I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. — Jennifer Lawrence
Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways. — Drake
Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market. — George Murphy
I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak. — Richard Beymer
Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with. — Peter Schjeldahl
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. — Dolly Parton
Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer. — Larry Cuban
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. — Henry Fielding
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. — Michael Lewis
She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience. — J. K. Rowling
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street. — Dr. Seuss
Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that street smarts is skill-based, we can measure it, compare it, and improve it in the general population. — Justin Menkes
Most people define "street smarts" as some innate ability to make savvy decisions, or one that has developed as a result of a person being confronted with very challenging circumstances in the past. I think another common term that is used is one who has amazing "business acumen." But, whatever we call it, it is always associated with some mysterious ability, only a few possess, that allow them to make better decisions than the rest of us. — Justin Menkes
I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts. — Michael T. Flynn
Some of you think that attending a top business school gives you an advantage. Others think that street smarts and hands-on experience are the best way to get ahead. Additionally, women have a tougher time in the workplace, or so they say. Let's find out. — Donald Trump
I love to have the people watching [The Office ] just because it's fun to have people watching, but our fans are so dedicated, so smart and so cool for the most part. We don't have these fans that overwhelm you if they see you on the street. They're like, 'Love the show', or 'What an idiot. You should have said something to her last week.' I'm like, 'I know.' — John Krasinski
I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house. — Masi Oka
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him. — J. B. Smoove
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts. — J. B. Smoove
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all. — Ben Stein
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes. — Whitey Herzog
I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts. — Mike Tyson
If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot. — Rand Paul
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts. — Sayings
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain. — Paul Krugman
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