Smarter Quotes - Page 21

• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Teacher, Ninth Grade, Grades

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• I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

  Ethan Hawke

  "Ethan Hawke: 'Nothing went the way I thought it would'". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  Salma Hayek

  Style, Important, Trying

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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  Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

  Lena Horne

  Inspiring, Work, People

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

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• Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked moose crashing through the woods," the smarter man chided. "Oh yeah. Like you could hear me over your specially trained 'woodland-animal footsteps,'" Rough Voice countered. "It was like listening to two deer humping each other.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Men, Animal, Lakes

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.103, Harlequin

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• I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

  Lee Child

  Armadillos, Knows

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.2263, Penguin

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• Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Song, Strong

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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• When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Football, Believe

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• Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.

  Richie Spice

  Weed, Rap, Marijuana

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• It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

  George H. W. Bush

  Friendship, Thinking, Years

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.

  The Edge

  Rabbits, Panthers, Unafraid

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• I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The risk taker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2002.

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• For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Ambition, America

  Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

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• It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Self, Logic, Accepting

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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• If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Self, Want, Standards

  "Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers". Question 12, lesswrong.com. January 07, 2010.

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• I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)

  Ingo Molnar

  Simple, Names, People

  LWN.net comment, lwn.net. June 12, 2011.

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• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Fun, Smart

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• One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Successful, Thinking

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• It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

  Molly Ivins

  Sound, Sides, Arguing

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Fishing

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• We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, People, Poor

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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