Smart People Quotes - Page 6

• I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

  Heidi Julavits

  Children, Smart, People

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  William P. Young

  Smart, People, Brain

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dog, Smart, Stupid

  "'The future is going to be very exciting'". Interview With Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

  Matt Labash

  Smart, People, Fairs

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• They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

  Gloria Naylor

  Pain, Smart, People

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• Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

  Philip Rosedale

  Smart, People, Use

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  People, The End Of The Day, Strategy

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• You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

  Rachel Caine

  Smart, Latin, Glasses

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.149, Penguin

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• If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

  David Levithan

  Smart, Believe, People

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• If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

  Bill Veeck

  Motivational, Baseball, People

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• When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Smart, Thinking

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• I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.

  Harald Zwart

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Book, Mean

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• I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

  Richard Posner

  Running, Mistake, Smart

  "Reagan-Appointed Judge: Deregulation Movement Made ‘A Fundamental Mistake’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

  Steve Jobs

  Real, Smart, Believe

  "Steve Jobs: the Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.

  Paul Westerberg

  Smart, Writing, People

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• I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Mistake, Smart

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• Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Smart, People, Ordinary

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• I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Smart, Hands, Practice

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• There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Should Have, People

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• 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. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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• ...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give you extra return just because you want it. You have to be very shrewd and hard working to get a little extra. It's so much easier to reduce your wants. There are a lot of smart people and a lot of them cheat, so it's not easy to win.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Hard Work, Winning

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• Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

  Bill Joy

  Smart, People, Sun

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