Smarter Quotes - Page 18

• The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Nice, Cat, Intelligent

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare”, p.12, Penguin

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• I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now - I often, and this is going to sound weird, but I often feel like the guy who makes these movies is smarter than me. Smarter than the guy on the phone right now.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Running, Phones, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Greed, Should

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• You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Rich, Neighbor, Knows

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Needs, Asking

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Stupid, Thinking, White

  Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books

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• If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sweat, Ifs

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

  Laura Lippman

  Smart, Luck, Lucky

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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• It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, People, Speak

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them.

  Scott Clifton

  Thinking, Views, Made

  "The Scott Clifton Interview – The Bold and the Beautiful". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. September 20, 2010.

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Inteview - WONDER WOMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

  Ernest Cline

  Girl, Boys, Glasses

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Claims

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• Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

  Andrew Stanton

  People, Criticism, Way

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• The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

  Andrew Stanton

  Nice, Thinking, Problem

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• Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

  Angela Kinsey

  Realizing, Audience

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• It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Assuming, Critical

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.

  Edward de Bono

  War, Justice, Enemy

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• Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

  Voltaire

  Army, Two, Brilliant

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• I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

  Michelle Williams

  Jobs, Simple, Would Be

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• It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

  Randy Jackson

  Looks, Calories, Portions

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• Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

  Robert Hughes

  Taste, Should

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• You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!

  Tim Johnson

  Simple, People, Needs

  Source: iwantmyname.com

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• Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

  Glenn Beck

  Horse, Educational, Stupid

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