Smarter Quotes - Page 26

• In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

  Stephen Curry

  Decision, Able, Efficiency

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Where you go to these really good schools, and it's all about preparing for the next step of success. That was never even on my radar. My job is to explore the world, because this is my one life, you know? That's totally how I see it. But I came to Yale just being like, Yeah, now I get to explore this place and meet all these people who are really smart. And I was just excited to be surrounded by people who were as smart as me or were probably smarter. And I just did not expect the level of competition and bitterness and anger, and, the tearing each other down.

  Larkin Grimm

  Jobs, Smart, School

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because when the logical mind gets too involved, I think it kills a lot of magic. I just think the subconscious mind is so much smarter, and unfortunately, people do not trust their subconscious. A lot of people just don't access to all of that, the secret genius that's inside of them. And it's so much easier to get it out of a musician if you don't give them a chance to overthink.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.

  Matthew Specktor

  Teenager, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  Molly Antopol

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

  Ed Seykota

  Smart, Play, People

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• The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Giving, Bird, Bluebird

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1869). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.115

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• All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Found, Hard

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• It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION.

  Richard Branson

  People, Giving, Focus

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• Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

  Dan Millman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

  Jessa Crispin

  Talking, People, Resistance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  War, Fighting, Intelligent

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• On the Internet, Spencer Hall at Everyday Should Be Saturday is the best writer in the universe. He's very funny. They're jokes about college football, but they come from somebody who's clearly smarter than the rest of us; it's always fun to get your jokes from someone who's a genius.

  Drew Magary

  Football, Fun, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Boards, Bulls, Cows

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

  James Franco

  Thinking, Littles, Type

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Stupid, Animal

  "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

  Adam Braun

  People, Different, Surround Yourself

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter.

  Stevie Nicks

  Men

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I hope everybody's getting smarter.

  Van Jones

  Source: aalbc.com

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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. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Graduation, Team, Memorable

  Michael Dell's commencement address to University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Realizing, Asks, More Knowledge

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• I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.

  Pink

  Thinking, Animal, Fake

  "P!nk Tells Circus, ‘Pack Your Trunks!’". PETA Interview, www.peta2.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Work, Preparation, World

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• Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

  Azim Premji

  Self Confidence, Self, People

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• Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Life, Change, Differences

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