A Quotes
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“A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.”
“A small victory, Catelyn thought when the fighting had ended and the surviving foemen had melted back into the night, yet a victory nonetheless.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“A small waist makes you tire easily.”
Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.”
Source: Miss Manners on Weddings
“A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up inside of him.”
Source: Buried Secrets
“A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.”
“A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.”
“A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.”
“A smaller but still significant risk of taking the neoliberal pill is you get more misguided adventures like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Indeed, there’s no way that elites could get us into another Iraq today. This at first glance appears to be a good thing, but it’s been at the cost of our culture becoming more neurotic, cynical, parochial, and fearful. Americans wouldn’t go off and die by the thousands in Iraq today because they don’t think anything is worth fighting for or believing in. Young people aren’t even leaving the house. I’d rather be a country that occasionally fights stupid wars than one that shuts itself off from the rest of the world and gives up on any idealistic vision of the future.”
“A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.”
“A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart.
"Awwwww!" said the crowd.
"Upside down," said Sean.
The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it's lights trailed and faded.
A bigger rocket exploded in bright golden sparks, and then came another red heart.
"Upside down," said all the boys.
Three explosions layered on top of one another, gold, blue, pink. Then still another red heart exploded, growing and growing before it faded.
"Upside down," said everyone in the boat but me.
My own heart expanded for Adam.
I whispered, "I know what he meant.”
Source: Endless Summer
“A smart business owner learns from the mistakes of others.”
“A smart city is a city where humans, trees, birds and other animals can grow with all their glories, imperfections, freedom, and creativity. They are not just cities of technology but cities of love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom and equality.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“A smart couple with a healthy financial relationship is always talking about money and how they're handling it. If there's a medical emergency or a job loss, talk about it. If there's a windfall, talk about it. Your financial situation is a constantly changing thing.”
“A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.”
“A smart entrepreneur pivots when circumstances pivot. When everything around you changes, you gotta change to adapt. Either you pivot and profit from the change, or you procrastinate and are forced to change eventually. And when you're forced to change, there's usually a loss not a profit.”
“A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.”
“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”
“A smart girl," Pin said. "She will get there. She doesn't like being the queen of drama." Six years ago, Pin had come over from one of our Taiwanese partners. She still had a little idiom hiccup now and then.
"Well, when is she going to toughen up? I know how important the tuition program is to her, how expensive vet school is. But how will she even get through if she can't handle a dead animal or two?"
"Yes, but better she begin with compassion. Not everyone has it”
“A smart investor is excited about the returns one gets from a bull market, and super excited about low cost investment one makes in a bear market.
Its a win-win both ways !
Volatility is an investor's best friend !”
Source: The Autobiography Of A Stock
“A smart leader listens in order to learn something, because he knows he cannot know everything.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“A smart leader listens in order to learn something, because he knows that he cannot know everything.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“A smart leader thinks first and acts later.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.”
Source: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
“A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.”
“A smart man knows how to take off his pants when you're feeling cold.
A wise man knows how to take off his jacket to warm you up.”
“A smart man knows when it is time to keep quiet, and when to speak. Moreover, a wise man considers the consequences of what he intends to say.”
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”
“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.”
“A smart man only tells half of what he thinks.”
Source: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.”
Source: The Whole Truth
“A smart model is a good model.”
“A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.”
“A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.”
“A smart patient realizes that the person most capable of diagnosing and treating their health issues is themselves.”
“A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.”
“A smart person is someone whom I spend most time with .A nice person is who I trust and love.”
“A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.”
“A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a way that brings most human development. And that's the purpose atheism should have.”
“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.”
“A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields that interest them and a job that's a career. A president whose plans can embrace and incorporate every millennial will be successful.”
“A smart radiation researcher realizes that the unsavory characters that they encounter during their research are likely radiation affected zombies.”
“A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.”
“A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.”
“A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.”
“A smart way of using your hands to make you look more interesting, thoughtful, and self-assured is to steeple your hands and fingers. Try using it strategically in formal environments or workplaces to show confidence and consideration.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“A smart woman analyzes the previous relationships of the people they date. They don't take their word for it that they were innocent in the breakup. Smart women look for patterns.”
Source: The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
“A smart woman does not just give up. When she does, it is for the right reasons.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A smart woman doesn't have to think if she is beautiful. A beautiful woman doesn't have to think if she is smart.”
Source: The New Land