Smart People Quotes - Page 7

• I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.

  Harald Zwart

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• ...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give you extra return just because you want it. You have to be very shrewd and hard working to get a little extra. It's so much easier to reduce your wants. There are a lot of smart people and a lot of them cheat, so it's not easy to win.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Hard Work, Winning

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• Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Smart, People, Ordinary

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• I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Mistake, Smart

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• I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

  Richard Posner

  Running, Mistake, Smart

  "Reagan-Appointed Judge: Deregulation Movement Made ‘A Fundamental Mistake’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Book, Mean

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• Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, People, Choices

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• I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Smart, Hands, Practice

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• We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.

  Cristian Machado

  Smart, Animal, Reality

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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• Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Smart, Writing, Opportunity

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like Linda Kintz and Forest Pyle and Mary Wood and Diana Abu Jaber. They didn't treat me like a messy writer girl in combat boots who had infiltrated the smart people room. They treated me like I deserved to be there, potty mouth and all, they helped make a space for me to rage and ride my own intellect. That's why I'm saying their names out loud.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Girl, Teacher, Smart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Media, People

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

  Don Winslow

  Smart, Stupid, People

  Don Winslow (2012). “The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

  Howie Klein

  Smart, Hate, Journey

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• My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.

  Michael Weatherly

  Mother, Father, Smart

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

  Michael Moritz

  Mistake, Smart, Ideas

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• My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

  Matthew Perry

  Smart, Luxury, People

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• Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

  Peter York

  Smart, People, Conflict

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• Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

  Goldie

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Clever, Smart, People

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Duel Between the Professor and the Poet', B/O, 1967.

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• All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

  Michael Lewis

  Smart, People, Overwhelmed

  Michael Lewis (2011). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”, p.258, W. W. Norton & Company

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• John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That is sad, when smart people have to pretend to be so dumb to get elected.

  Bill Maher

  Smart, Teaching, Intelligent

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Smart, Moving, Believe

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