Smarter Quotes - Page 8

• Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

  Charlie Munger

  Littles

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• The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

  Ben Casnocha

  Smart, People, Dumb

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• And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.

  Clayton Christensen

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.203, Harvard Business Review Press

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• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  Angelina Jolie

  Usual, Scripts, Behavior

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• The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

  Jeremy Lin

  Fall, Looks, Stuff

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• It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

  Joan Clarke

  Smart, Science, Matter

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• I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.

  Martin Zweig

  Ego, Trying, Way

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• Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, Harder, Knows

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• Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

  Allan Bloom

  Greek, Philosopher, Forget

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• You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

  David Sobel

  Wall, School, Kids

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• The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Clever, People, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.69, Random House

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• I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Thinking, Hbo, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Use, Mouths

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• The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

  Edward Klein

  Feet, Campaigns, Clinton

  "Edward Klein on 'The Amateur,' Obama's Faith". Interview with Paul Stanley, www.christianpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Able, Married, Lost

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• I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Smart, People

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• With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

  David Zinczenko

  Mean, America, Guy

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• Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

  David Zinczenko

  Successful, Today, Slim

  "NOTICED; Men Who Step Up to the Scale and Crow" by David Colman, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Beautiful, Cat, Size

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

  John Merrow

  Twelve, Students, Restriction

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

  David Brooks

  World, Way, Emotion

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

  Daniel Dennett

  Smart, Effort, Matter

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

  Stone Gossard

  Running, Thinking, Cities

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. Ocotober 17, 2008.

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