“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.” IfsBelieveBeautifulFunSocialChallengesFitCapableSmartCome UpHandleSmarterStemBeing SmartReally SmartBeautiful YouYou Re Beautiful Author:Danica McKellar
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.” YearsLooksLittlesSuccessNamesFriendshipWealthPoorPovertyStruggleRichGreaterCapableSmartGloryLonelyObviousRichesAttractiveSurroundApartmentIndifferentTrue FriendMotorGlamourTangibleMany Friends Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” MindBelieveHumansEnoughCapableSmartPercentErrorsDon't BelieveHuman Mind Author:Ken Wilber
“The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.” WayHumansGuyGivenFeltHuman BeingsCuttingPersonalityPoliticianCapableSmartCornersEthicalBullyingAuthoritarianismChristie Author:Chris Hayes
“I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable. So thankfully there is not an issue in that regard where somebody isn't pulling their own weight. We collaborate all the time. We tend to take different paths, but we tend to reach very similar conclusions. It's actually great because it allows us to be much more creative in the process of getting things done.” TwoDifferentDoneProcessCreativePathIssuesBrotherCapableSmartWeightRegardFortuneConclusionAccomplishedPullingGood FortuneThings DoneGetting Things DoneDifferent PathsTwo Brothers Author:Ivanka Trump
“I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.” PeopleWayKindChildrenTwoMatterCharacterKidsParentCapableSmartWho You AreTeenagerViciousUndoneComplicationWhere You Live Author:Keri Russell
“Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.” EnoughTodayBrainCapableSmartProgrammingGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.” PeopleWorldMindStatesStageHugeCapableSmartToughClintonCommandAround The WorldAssetsSecretarySkepticalAmusedStature Author:Barack Obama
“I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate. I think we're lucky to have someone as smart and capable and strong as she is wanting to be our president.” ThinkingWantStrongPresidentFocusWonderfulLuckyCapableSmartClintonHonestlyCandidatesFormidable Author:Natalie Portman
“How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.” GrowthInfluenceEconomicCapableSmartStrategyYieldEconomistEconomic GrowthVery Smart Author:George W. Bush
“[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.” TryingPersonsTodaySchoolPolicyCapableSmartClimateBlockRealmsSubtleSophisticatedSmart Person Author:David Brooks
“Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.” BeautifulGirlBlackMagicAcceptanceRevolutionCapableSmartConsciousHatredMisogynyBlack WomenBlack Girl Author:Amandla Stenberg
“The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent?” WorldEnoughFunPerfectStupidCapableSmartVictimPoint Of ViewManipulate Author:Martha Stout
“I think being sexy and comfortable in your body is a wonderful thing, and I don't mind being acknowledged for it or appreciated for it. I know what I'm capable of. I know that I'm a relatively smart girl - I'm clever - and I feel like the sexy image only stands to make me a more powerful human being.” ThinkingMindGirlPowerfulWonderfulCapableSmartSexyCleverAppreciatedSmart Girl Author:Megan Fox
“Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.” ThinkingMeanImportantSelfHardFeelingsGuyChallengesFindingsCapableSmartMathematicsIntelligenceWorthyMathDumbSelf RespectTackling Author:Danica McKellar
“All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.” IfsKnowsMenMindMeanTwoHandsEarthSportsPerfectInterestingLordRelationshipSeriousReadyConversationCapableSmartTreatsIndependentGreenFishesCooksIntimatePocketsBreakfastSandwichesNot ReadyBeing SmartGreen EarthPerfect WomanInteresting ConversationSerious Relationship Author:Steve Harvey
“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.” MenWorldLooksCapableSmartIndependentLook UpNervesCharming Book:You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.” IfsHelpingHappinessAcceptingAcceptanceBecomingCapableSmartTreatsAddictionUpliftingLife Wisdom Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?” IfsKnowsWantedStuffSportsBoysTakenCapableSmartBunchRidingBikeGirlyPageantEither OrDebutantes Book:Along for the Ride Source: Along for the Ride