Smarter Quotes

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Don’t be one of those who don’t want others to be empowered.

Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.

I am not smarter than anybody else, but I can outwork you.

There is nothing outside of yourself. That can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

We think someone else, someone smarter than us, someone more capable, someone with more resources will solve that problem. But there isn't anyone else.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

The smarter you get, the less you speak.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

People are smarter than you might think.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog.

Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox.

The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

A professional player is smarter than a college man.

He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies.

I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago.

Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling.

If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

I have no desire to be president of the United States.

Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught.

I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were.

And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself.

Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience.

They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible.

And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.