Smart People Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Smart, Gun, Thinking

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• 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

  Smart, Thinking, Europe

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• I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.

  John Fairclough

  Jobs, Smart, People

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• I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Smart, People, Surround

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm dealing with very, very talented people, smart people, good people. And I think they will be competing. We still have a competition. I had great victory yesterday. South Carolina was amazing. New Hampshire was amazing. The size of the victories, I think, were incredible.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Thinking, Yesterday

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

  Paula Scher

  Smart, People, Dumb

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Peace, Interesting, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Knowledge, Hands

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• I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Smart, Stupid, People

  C. J. Cherryh (2012). “Intruder”, p.134, Penguin

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• Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, People, Inspire

  "Mr. Obama Goes to Washington" by David Sirota, www.thenation.com. June 08, 2006.

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• Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

  Vinton Cerf

  Smart, Information Flow, Information Sharing

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• 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

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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• Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction, that deep, Imago attachment is more powerful than logic, and in fact disables logic. So, any explanation or analysis or reflection on such a feeling is already many steps removed from the experience.

  Melissa Febos

  Powerful, Smart, Reflection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Thinking, Law

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• The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Smart, Character, Journey

  "‘Hunted’ creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & ‘The X-Files’ legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say 'you have to look at this film'. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time.

  Amy Pascal

  Smart, People, Very Smart

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Keys, Numbers

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• When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself and placed smart people around me. I surrounded myself with people who not only are intelligent and effective about finances, taxes, and money management, but they (also) love me.

  Steve Harvey

  Smart, Intelligent, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• My mom started understanding how many people take advantage of a child, so she hired smart people to protect me in that way. I'm happy that when I was younger, people protected me and put me in a position where I can now control my music.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Children, Smart

  Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Army, Should Have

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• I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

  Brendon Burchard

  Smart, Believe, Successful

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• 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

  Zero, Smart, Years

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• I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving, I was going to eat the next day. I came to Hollywood wanting a career that had longevity, and I wasn't afraid to take risks because I had a dollar in the bank. I wasn't driven by money as much as I was driven by making a successful transition. And I was smart enough to know that I certainly didn't have all the answers and I needed to surround myself with smart people and be willing to take risks and be willing to fail.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Smart, Successful, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

  Marissa Mayer

  Smart, Player, Thinking

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• I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wonder, joy, surprise. And what becomes really interesting is when innovative or challenging or smart people take it and use the easy runway that the form allows to take people to another planet, or another place. Or subvert it in some way.

  George C. Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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