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“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”

“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.”

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”

“Two people don't see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit”

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”

“A sermon preached but yet not practiced will fail to touch the hearts of its listeners and will never bring glory to God rather it will become a loathsome sacrifice that will stink on broken altars. One can be theologically astute but still very immature. One can possibly be biblically literate but still in very much need of wisdom to apply the truth in one's own life.”

Sacrifice Listeners Astute Sermon Literate Preached Practiced Theologically

Author:Santosh Thankachan

“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.”

Feels I Can Bits Lord Circumstances Sinner Naive Summary Astute

Author:Pope Francis

“Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.”

Used Song Resources Eras Covered Songwriters Astute

Author:Martin Fry

“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”

“A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.”

People Needs Desire Passion Leader Player Team Football Balance Willingness Mixtures Football Team Good Leader Technicians Keep Learning Communicators Great Football Astute

Author:Hope Powell

“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Ifs Looks States Helping Media Products Communication Like You Perspective Flow Currents Consumers Inevitable Related Digital Massive Astute

Author:Aaron Belz

“As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.”

Important Hell Shirts Brown Followers T Shirt Charlie Peanuts Astute

Author:Matt Groening

“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Ifs Would Be Today Moving Energy Business Alive Clean Climate Investing Convinced Fuel Businessman Fossils Fossil Fuel Live For Today Renewable Energy Moving Out Astute

Author:Stephen Heintz

“I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.”

Way Observation Really Great Wordplay Astute

Author:Greg Behrendt

“The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.”

Ifs Used Love Is Defined Acknowledge Als Verbs Nouns Theorists Words Love Astute

Author:Bell Hooks

“Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.”

Smart Actresses Dumb Very Smart Good Business Astute Bombshells

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”

Wells Might Romance Reading Nations Common Grace Smart Authenticity Obsession Curious Analysis Insightful Outsiders Jerry Hale Holden Holden Caulfield Astute

Author:Beth Bailey

“Satan is an astute theologian.”

Satan Theologian Astute

Author:John Calvin

“That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.”

People Men Want Character Lips Drunk Breasts Sober True Character Astute

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.”

People Values Individual Poor Judging Bases Absolutes Fundamentals Compare Relative Versus Arbitrary Psychologist Astute Relative Value

Author:Michael Mauboussin

“I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.”

Want Shows Speak Sides Pleasure Laughter Property Certainty Comment Astute

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.”

Needs Stories Smart Editors Really Smart Really Amazing Astute

Author:Ru Freeman

“While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)”

“I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.”

Thinking Children Parent Talking Teacher Skills Standards Gold Tests Impression Diagnosis Interacting Clinicals Gold Standard Astute Clinicians

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.”

Self Done Seems Courses Knowing Effects Assuming Artistic Journalist Destructive Sinister Self Destructive Astute

Author:Billy Corgan

“We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.”

World Needs Evil Reading Genius Astute Evil Genius

Author:Nick Morgan

“I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.”

America Political Spirit Social Originals Committed Engaged Courageous Social Change 1960s Analysts Audacious Irreverent Astute

Author:Camille Paglia

“My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.”

Thinking Too Much Clouds Credit Businessman Astute

Author:Steven Spielberg

“[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.”

Mother Moral Opinion Taught Lovers Traditional Radical Minorities Feminine Listeners Astute

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.”

Observation Astute

Book:The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

“So you're not a prince. She's pretty astute,don't you think? Owww! I'm sorry-- I'll shut up now, Princess!”

Thinking Sorry Princess Shut Up I'm Sorry Astute

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.”

Knows Want Wells Know How Growing Up Growing Journalist Astute

Author:Carol Burnett

“What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.”

Thinking Looks Made Shows Dog Painting Enormous Observation Odd Considering Astute

Author:Sarah MacLean

“To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More

“To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.”

People Believe Character Wish Cases Harder Astute

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.”

Lying Church Practice Teaching Superstitions Vulgar Compounds Sorcery Astute

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.”

Crazy Healthy Blind Being Crazy Astute

Book:Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment

Source: Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment

“There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.”

“Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.”

Years Half Blood Excellent Sensitive Marie Astute

Author:Esi Edugyan

“Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.”

Turns Evil Dark Novel Mysterious Poetic Realistic Gothic Astute

Author:Andrea Barrett

“Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.”

Men Years Lasts Moving Games Politician Accounts Faults Passionate Warrior Great Men Devoted Last Year Frustrated Hunters Family Man Theodore Astute

Author:David Herbert Donald

“Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.”

Beautiful Used Language Clear Depends Capacity Fearless Twilight Effectiveness Conformist Audacious Astute

Book:Days and Nights

Source: Days and Nights

“With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as Prog-Pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right”

“Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength.”

Powerful Adults Dragons Astute

Author:Ciruelo Cabral

“The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.”

“Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.”

Knows Understanding Attitude Trade Senses Rely Owners Chef Assistance Gourmet Truffles Astute Deep Understanding Celine

Author:Thomas Keller

“'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.”

Today Spirit Poor Pride Program Blessed Insight Vanity Welfare Heavenly Egotism Meek Swollen Astute Welfare Programs Poor In Spirit

Author:Huston Smith

“Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.”

“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.”

Thinking Persons Funny Sells Finance Funny Things Astute

Author:William Feather