Smart Quotes - Page 36

• The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

  James May

  Reality, Air, Demand

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• No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Reality, Matter

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• Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Choices, Design, Navigation

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Ideas

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Smart marketing is about help not hype.

  Jay Baer

  Hype, Marketing, Helping

  Jay Baer, Darren Root (2014). “Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.12, Penguin

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• I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

  Eva Longoria

  Sexy, Mean, Conceited

  "Eva Longoria Divorce: Star Opens Up About Split From Tony Parker", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

  Usher

  Sexy, Book, Brain

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• My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

  Joe Teti

  Stupid, Simple, Survival

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• A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Believe, Wife, Silence

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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Widows And Orphans, Land

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• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Mass Destruction, Numbers

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• SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Book, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out

  George Ade

  People, Indiana, Faster

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• Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Dumb, Thanks

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.4, Random House

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• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  School, Simple, Race

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Success, Believe, Hard Work

  "10 Mark Zuckerberg Quotes That Show Why He's Been So Successful" by Jason Fell, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2014.

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• Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...

  Lewis Black

  Country, Crazy, Stupid

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• If I had a daughter, I would tell her certain things. I would tell her that it’s great to be smart, really smart - that being smart makes you strong. I would tell her that emotions are powerful, so don’t be afraid to show them. I would tell her that some people may judge you on how you look or what you wear - that’s just how it is - but you should keep your focus on what you say and do. I would tell her that she may see the world differently from boys, and that difference is essential and good.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Daughter, Strong, Powerful

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• Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

  Jim Costa

  Technology, Practice, Water

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• Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Giving, Advice, Add

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• I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, People, Needs

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• When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue… and that’s why I cry after sex.

  Ellen Page

  Sex, Wall, Men

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• Once again I've been invited to the program WET. I gathered my thoughts and experiences and had the best time, these girls are so smart and mature and could teach me a thing or two. Once again I came out feeling good, it was the best therapy session ever. Damn these girls are good!

  Judy Marte

  Girl, Two, Feel Good

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Confused, Our World, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

  Charles Stross

  Intelligent, Average, Leaving

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.283, Penguin

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