Smarter Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

  Anthony Pettis

  Philosophy, Mma, Effort

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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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• The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

  Judy Woodruff

  Brain, Body, Computer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

  Steve Jobs

  Simple, People, Facts

  "10 Powerful Quotes From The Steve Jobs Movie And What They Teach Us About Leadership" by Carmine Gallo, www.forbes.com. August 16, 2013.

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• Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger.

  Donn Moomaw

  Mistake, Challenges, Stronger

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• But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Kids, Parent, Said

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.29, Penguin

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• I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. They’re not better looking; they’re not smarter; they’re not classier; they’re not more charming. They probably give more blowjobs than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but it’s also society’s fault.

  Julie Klausner

  Agency, Giving, Sushi

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• It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Moving, Mean, Appreciate

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• Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Three, Tomorrow, Kind

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Two, Together

  "Keating criticises ALP over compulsory super plan". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2007.

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• I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.

  Christi Paul

  Promise, Want, Where You Are

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, War, Guarantees That

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

  Robert Jordan

  Mother, Men, Brain

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.510, Macmillan

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• Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

  Michael Lewis

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  Keith Olbermann

  Thinking, Years, Rooms

  "Making Up Hard to Do for Olbermann" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 16, 2003.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Two, Mail

  "Transcript: Everything Hillary Clinton Said on the Email Controversy". Press conference, time.com. March 10, 2015.

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• I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

  Rand Paul

  People, Mexican, Leader

  Source: time.com

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• I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.

  Joe Torry

  Thoughtful, Differences, Comedian

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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