Smarter Quotes - Page 25

• Denser cities are smarter and more productive

  Richard Florida

  Cities, Productive

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• My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

  George Smoot

  Names, Fifth, Fifth Graders

  "Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader" by Tanya Schevitz, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2010.

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• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Smart, Thinking, Machines

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• I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Greed

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

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• It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Powerful, Atheism, Damnation

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Senior, Teacher, Dead Poets Society

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Iron, People, Trying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Important, Fiction

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• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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• I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Song, College

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• Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Pain, Apples, Imagination

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance”, p.900, Hachette UK

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• How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."

  Daphne Zuniga

  Thinking, Office, Lessons

  "Daphne Zuniga | Actress. Eco Rockstar. Champion for Women. Truth Seeker". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Animal, Humans

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

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• The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Learning, Self, Growing

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• People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Numbers, People, Groups

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• The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

  Estelle Ramey

  Men, Answers

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• Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

  Ben Bradlee

  People

  "Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93" by Robert G. Kaiser, www.washingtonpost.com. October 21, 2014.

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• All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Found, Hard

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• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  Molly Antopol

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

  Jessa Crispin

  Talking, People, Resistance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

  James Franco

  Thinking, Littles, Type

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Boards, Bulls, Cows

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• On the Internet, Spencer Hall at Everyday Should Be Saturday is the best writer in the universe. He's very funny. They're jokes about college football, but they come from somebody who's clearly smarter than the rest of us; it's always fun to get your jokes from someone who's a genius.

  Drew Magary

  Football, Fun, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  War, Fighting, Intelligent

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