Smarter Quotes - Page 11

• Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

  George Steinbrenner

  Determination, Intelligent, Men

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• A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 03, 2013

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• Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

  Michael Dell

  People, Trying, Different

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

  David Brooks

  World, Way, Emotion

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

  Cus D'Amato

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Progress, Forests, Mankind

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• Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

  Matt Labash

  Smart, People, Fairs

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• Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

  Charlie Munger

  Bed, Investing

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• I don't have to be smarter than anybody else.  I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

  Graham Hawkes

  Harder

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• Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Journey

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• It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

  Joan Clarke

  Smart, Science, Matter

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• There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

  Raoul Bott

  Math, Two, Way

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• The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Thinking, Average, Guy

  Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Animal, Technology, Ideas

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• As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

  Gene Sharp

  Fighting, Opponents, Weapons

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• You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

  Mark Pincus

  Numbers, Copies, Competitors

  "FarmVillains " by Peter Jamison, archives.sfweekly.com. September 08, 2010.

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• Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

  Spider Robinson

  Stupid, Men, Kind

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• I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

  Brett Hull

  Knows

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• Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

  Philippe Starck

  People, Design, Sun

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• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  Nate Silver

  Real, Mean, Skills

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• Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

  Jewel

  Optimism, Fluffy, Cynicism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Best Job, People

  YouTube Chanel "Silicon Valley Historical Association"/ "From the Documentary Film Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life", www.youtube.com. October 6, 2011.

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