Quotes about smart
smart people overwhelmed
All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise. Michael Lewis
smart thinking durham
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. Michelle Forbes
smart want television
I want to make smart television. Michael Ironside
smart book way
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way. Michael Ealy
smart parent dumb
As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were. Paul Reiser
smart writing gun
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head. Paul Reiser
smart intelligent people
Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act. Park Chan-wook
smart
I’m not, like, that smart. Paris Hilton
smart play dumb
I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes. Paris Hilton
smart stuff forget
I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time. Paris Hilton
smart smart-women written
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? Padma Lakshmi
smart believe heart
I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart. Lily Collins
smart boys female
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
smart perfect pages
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last. Lev Grossman
smart kids knowledge-is-power
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to. Lauren Myracle
smart stupid animal
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh. Lauren Oliver
smart new-orleans assessment
Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius. Larry the Cable Guy
smart mushrooms lions
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population. Paul Stamets
smart president needs
If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president Paul Castellano
smart believe people
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place. Seth Godin
smart dedication marketing
Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts. Seth Godin
smart organization people
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission Seth Godin
smart communication organization
Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe. Seth Godin
smart people together
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together. Tom Cruise
smart fall skills
Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place. Snoop Dogg
smart college common-sense
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
smart player three
We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches. Joe Dumars
smart risk might
a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast? Jodi Picoult
smart cat thinking
On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. Jodi Picoult
smart hate air
Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168 John Green
smart marijuana cells
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents. John Green
smart class may
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer. John Green
smart thinking talking
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing. John Green