Being Smart Quotes - Page 5

• For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Smart, Past, Thinking

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Everybody can be smart.

  Jose Mourinho

  Smart

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

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• You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

  Stacy Keibler

  Smart, Needs, Body

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• I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Wise, Smart, Yoga

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

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• So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

  Michael Parkinson

  Clever, Smart, Boys

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• You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.

  Brande Roderick

  Beach, Fun, Smart

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• I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Smart, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Smart, People, Phrases

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

  Connor Franta

  Girl, Smart, Ambition

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, May, Enough

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• In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

  Greg Graffin

  Strong, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

  Joan Baez

  Smart, People, Giving

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Smart, Sick, Enough

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• Ideally we're going to stay at an American hotel. We just want to take every precaution. Because if you get sick out there, and you're playing in that hot sun and you get depleted, it's going to be a problem. So that would be the only other thing I think that athletes on a whole are going to be worried about. But again, we have to do our part and take every precaution and be smart.

  Kerri Walsh

  Smart, Athlete, Thinking

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Smart, Giving, Guy

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I just take credit for being smart enough to find a guy as smart as Benett [Miller] to tell the story [of "Moneyball"].

  Brad Pitt

  Smart, Guy, Stories

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.

  Kerri Walsh

  Smart, Pieces, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

  Jonathon Keats

  Smart, Thinking, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Smart, Play, Dumb

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• There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Smart, Environment, Really Cool

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• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  Aaron Allston

  Smart, Stupid, Dumb

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• Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Way

  "Digital Transformation - Part II: Collective Intelligence Is the Game Changer" by Rod Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2017.

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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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