Smart Quotes - Page 38

• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  Lisa See

  Strong, War, Hard Times

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.

  Rich Miner

  Phones, Marketing, Connections

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• Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

  David Joyner

  Motivational, Clever, Lines

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• I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

  Charles Duhigg

  Mom, Thinking, Special

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.246, Random House

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• Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Believe, Giving, Degrees

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• Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

  Hunter Lovins

  Environment, Sustainability, Things To Do

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• Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best friend, righting wrongs and helping those in need. But when she stumbles into a town whose children are vanishing, and meets the haunted young sheriff trying to save them, what was a job becomes very personal. This is urban fantasy at its best, with all the magic and mayhem tied together with very human emotions, even when the characters aren't quite human.

  Alex Bledsoe

  Dog, Jobs, Children

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• The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

  Gary Haugen

  People, Brave, Facts

  Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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• Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

  Byron Nelson

  Stupid, Golf, People

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• When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

  Harry S. Dent

  Real, Opportunity, Play

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• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

  Andrew Samwick

  Believe, Cutting, Thoughtful

  "A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Clever

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• The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Giving, Thought Provoking

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• The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

  Daniel Burka

  People, Design, Dumb

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• You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
  He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

  LL Cool J

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  Song: Mr. Good Bar

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• Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Long Ago, Years

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• 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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• May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"

  Danny Baker

  Funny, Clever, School

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

  Simon Barnes

  Funny, Clever, Husband

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Clever, Thinking

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