Smart Quotes - page 25

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. (Gregory Corso)
We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches! View quote
Dan Ariely
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. View quote
Daniel Dennett
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it. View quote
Darren Shan
We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless. View quote
Deborah King
Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so. View quote
Dave Ramsey
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. View quote
David Duchovny
If you can't be smart or funny, be brief. (J.A. Konrath)
Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch. View quote
Janet Evanovich
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard. View quote
Jeannette Walls
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. View quote
James Surowiecki
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise. View quote
James Surowiecki
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds. View quote
James Surowiecki
So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway. View quote
Gena Showalter
What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too... everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway. View quote
Gena Showalter
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. View quote
Don Winslow
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do. (Duncan Jones)
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. View quote
Amy Bloom
I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are. View quote
Amy Cuddy
Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart! View quote
Emma Stone
I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one. View quote
Eric McCormack