Smarter Quotes - Page 19

• Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Journey

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• Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Commitment, Heart

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.8, Frog Books

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

  Gene Sharp

  Fighting, Opponents, Weapons

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• You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

  Mark Pincus

  Numbers, Copies, Competitors

  "FarmVillains " by Peter Jamison, archives.sfweekly.com. September 08, 2010.

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• Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

  Spider Robinson

  Stupid, Men, Kind

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• I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

  Philippe Starck

  People, Design, Sun

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• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  Nate Silver

  Real, Mean, Skills

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• The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Thinking, Average, Guy

  Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.

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• My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Goal, Littles, Viewers

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• There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

  Raoul Bott

  Math, Two, Way

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• GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Character, Play

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• A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

  Red Grange

  Player, College, Men

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 03, 2013

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• Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

  George Steinbrenner

  Determination, Intelligent, Men

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• Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

  Michael Dell

  People, Trying, Different

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Mind, Investing

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• I don't have to be smarter than anybody else.  I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

  Graham Hawkes

  Harder

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• You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

  Norman Granz

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• You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Smart, Responsibility, People

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• Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Care, Rooms, Maternity

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.108, Seven Stories Press

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• One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Nice, Climate, Frogs

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