Smarter Quotes - Page 15

• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Smart, Thinking

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• Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Yesterday

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• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Giving

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

  Michael Weatherly

  Mad, Wife, Ifs

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• I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, Views, Keys

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

  St. Vincent

  Creative, Ears, Way

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• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Thinking, Comforting, Human Nature

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• I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

  Dick Cavett

  Teacher, Sorry, Home

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company

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• You are pretty smart. But your body is smarter.

  Pete Egoscue

  Smart, Body, Your Body

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• You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Hair, People

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

  Stone Gossard

  Running, Thinking, Cities

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. Ocotober 17, 2008.

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• The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

  Edward Klein

  Feet, Campaigns, Clinton

  "Edward Klein on 'The Amateur,' Obama's Faith". Interview with Paul Stanley, www.christianpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Able, Married, Lost

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• I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Smart, People

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• With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

  David Zinczenko

  Mean, America, Guy

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• Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

  David Zinczenko

  Successful, Today, Slim

  "NOTICED; Men Who Step Up to the Scale and Crow" by David Colman, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Beautiful, Cat, Size

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

  John Merrow

  Twelve, Students, Restriction

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

  Daniel Dennett

  Smart, Effort, Matter

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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