Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sal Albanese

At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

S. E. Hinton

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Russell Simmons

I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.

Russell Simmons

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

Ron Silver

I do believe all actors are smart.

Ron Silver

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Ron Silver

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Roland Emmerich

There are shots that I had to walk away from because we had to get the movie in the theaters. There are some in "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," but lately I got smart. I would plan it so I had enough time [to get it right]. That just comes with experience.

Steve Jobs

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Vince Lombardi

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Samuel Johnson

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Samantha Barks

I want to make smart choices.

Sam Worthington

If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.

Sam Worthington

I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.

Sam Worthington

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

Sam Altman

People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

Sam Altman

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

Sam Altman

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

Ruzwana Bashir

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Ruth Park

"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ..."

Robert Penn Warren

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Wesley Clark

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Tony Hillerman

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

Steve Wozniak

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…

Steve Mariucci

I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

Stephen Elop

If you look at the economics of Nokia, roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

Stephen Elop

Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand.

Stephanie Klein

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

Tucker Max

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

Susan Wojcicki

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

Susan Wojcicki

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

Sophocles

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

Steve Spurrier

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.