Smarter Quotes - Page 12

• But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

  Tyson Gay

  Believe, Wiser, Train

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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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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• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  John Shirley

  Mean, Artist, People

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• What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motivation, Wife, Hunters

  "Verdict" with Dan Abrams, www.nbcnews.com. August 13, 2008.

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• GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Character, Play

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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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• I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

  Cub Swanson

  Smart, Mma, Champion

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• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  Angelina Jolie

  Usual, Scripts, Behavior

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• The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

  Jeremy Lin

  Fall, Looks, Stuff

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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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• I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.

  Ab-Soul

  Smart, Thinking, Special

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Criticism, Doe, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 07, 2017

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• Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Commitment, Heart

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.8, Frog Books

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• You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

  David Sobel

  Wall, School, Kids

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