Smarter Quotes

• For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

  Jay Leno

  Women, Tests, Firsts

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• Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

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• 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. “Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Fun, Smart

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• If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

  Howard Wilkinson

  People, Littles, Bits

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

  Socrates

  Fool, Knows

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• People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

  Zadie Smith

  Form, Novel, One Thing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

  Tim McGraw

  Mother, Daughter, Kids

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• Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Cheesy, Politics

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• The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

  Dick Gephardt

  Political, President, Helping

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• You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

  Paul Heyman

  Morning, Fun, Mistake

  "The Rise & Fall of ECW". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Asking Questions, Doors

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• I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Long, Guy

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

  Warren Buffett

  Journalist, Better Off

  "Blow to Press Freedom in Turkey" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2013.

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• The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Country, Mistake, Past

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• While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

  Robin Sharma

  Home, Average, Office

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 28, 2013

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• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Simple, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

  Bill Hybels

  Everyday, Way, Used

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• History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Mistake, Needs, Born

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• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Voting

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• One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

  Zell Miller

  Football, Running, Team

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• At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Successful, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

  Bill Walsh

  Technology, Way, Phenomenon

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Creative, Rivals, Down And

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Aug 02, 2016

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