Smarter Quotes - Page 20

• Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

  Peter Rogers MD

  Games, Game Changers, Changed

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• If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Angel, Giving

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• Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

  John Wooden

  Adversity, Stronger, Way

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• Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

  Charlie Munger

  Bed, Investing

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• 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

  Keys, Digital Revolution, World

  "Intelligence in the Internet Age". New York Times, September 19, 2005.

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• The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

  Gary Hirshberg

  People, Secret, Knows

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• Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, People, Creating Art

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• If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

  Sergey Brin

  Brain, World, Information

  "All Eyes On Google". Newsweek Interview, www.newsweek.com. March 28, 2004.

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• How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

  Matt Groening

  Home, Brain, Stuff

  "Why a Homer Simpson philosophy course isn’t as strange as it sounds" by Anna Leszkiewicz, www.newstatesman.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

  David Cummings

  Hours In The Day, Balance, Insirational

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• If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Two, People

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• Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Song, Strong

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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• I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The risk taker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2002.

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• When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Football, Believe

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• Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.

  Richie Spice

  Weed, Rap, Marijuana

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• It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

  George H. W. Bush

  Friendship, Thinking, Years

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  Mark Burnett

  Children, Years, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Dog, Training

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• Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.

  The Edge

  Rabbits, Panthers, Unafraid

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, People, Degrees

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• We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Smart, Hard Work

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2008). “A Leader's Legacy”, p.159, John Wiley & Sons

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• In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Individual, Participants

  Robert L. Bartley (1992). “The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again”, Free Press

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• I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year’s Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.

  Joyce Banda

  Country, Fighting, Years

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• You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

  Tibor Kalman

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