Smarter Quotes - Page 21

• I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

  Lee Child

  Armadillos, Knows

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.2263, Penguin

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• Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked moose crashing through the woods," the smarter man chided. "Oh yeah. Like you could hear me over your specially trained 'woodland-animal footsteps,'" Rough Voice countered. "It was like listening to two deer humping each other.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Men, Animal, Lakes

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.103, Harlequin

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• The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Smart, Mean

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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• Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

  Steve Albini

  Jobs, Busy, Appeals

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• Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, People, Inspiring Business

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

  Kenny Chesney

  Philosophy, Beer, Drunk

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Wheels

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• I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, People

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• Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

  Joe Pesci

  Love, Dream, Boys

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• I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

  Jamie Foxx

  Fun, Grandmother, College

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• It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

  Michael Gove

  Brain, Language, Cases

  "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Teacher, Ninth Grade, Grades

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• I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

  Ethan Hawke

  "Ethan Hawke: 'Nothing went the way I thought it would'". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2012.

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• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Injury

  "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  Salma Hayek

  Style, Important, Trying

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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  Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

  Lena Horne

  Inspiring, Work, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Knows, Seems

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• No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Years, People

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• And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

  Herb Brooks

  Stupid, Done, Littles

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

  Ben Stein

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People are smarter than you might think.

  John Astin

  Thinking, People, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Government, President

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Discipline, Attention

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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