Smarter Quotes - Page 22

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

Glenn Beck

Zero, Integrity, Thinking

"Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Bono

Enemy, Despair, Poverty

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Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

Elayne Boosler

Dog, Pigs, Congress

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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

Frans de Waal

Strong, People, Poor

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For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

Marco Rubio

Dream, Ambition, America

Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

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Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

Lee Wulff

Smart, Sea, Fishing

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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Molly Ivins

Sound, Sides, Arguing

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One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.

Mark Cuban

Lying, Successful, Thinking

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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

Danica McKellar

Beautiful, Fun, Smart

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I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)

Ingo Molnar

Simple, Names, People

LWN.net comment, lwn.net. June 12, 2011.

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If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Self, Want, Standards

"Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers". Question 12, lesswrong.com. January 07, 2010.

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Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

Paul Russo

Creating, Leaving, Genius

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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Self, Logic, Accepting

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

Mark Cuban

Inspiring, Success, Power

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I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

Kristi Noem

Leadership, Cutting, Government

FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

Rowan Pelling

Years, Taught, Primitive

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Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

John Ralston Saul

Country, Hard Work, Army

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Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

Martin Henderson

Character, Thinking, Play

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

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If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

Senior, Teacher, Dead Poets Society

Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Usher

Hair, Salt, Peppers

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Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Walther Rathenau

Intelligence, Opponents, Assuming

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I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Jason Bateman

Mean, Hands, Arms

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If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Louis C. K.

Believe, Thinking, Laughing

"Louis C.K. Oh My God". Documentary, Comedy, 2013.

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That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.

Michael Scott

Writing, Important, Fiction

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