Smarter Quotes - Page 3

• People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Labels, Sugar

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  Barry Schuler

  God, Soul, Use

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Evolution, Capricious, Callous

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smart, Knows

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

  Stephen Hawking

  Parent, Apes, Ancestor

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

  Larry Wall

  Language, Computer, Ambiguous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Never assume someone is smarter than you.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Assuming, Never Assume

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• I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, People, Listening

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• I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

  Brett Hull

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

  Katherine Paterson

  Scare

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, World

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• Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: everything around us that we call life was made up of people that are no smarter than you. And you can build your own things and you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life, don't live one, find your opportunities and always be sexy.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sexy, Opportunity, Simple

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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• What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Phones, Use

  "Solve This: What All Tech Giants Rely on for Success Except Apple" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2017.

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• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Differences, Brain

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• Every poker player is smarter than me.

  Penn Jillette

  Player

  "Penn Jillette on Election 2008". Interview with David Weigel, reason.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

  Penn Jillette

  Way, Charismatic, Barack

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

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• The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Advice, Given, Equal

  "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. 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

  Mother, Wall, Sorry

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