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“[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.”

People Firsts May Facts Seems Certain Asks Ability Creativity Technology Smart Concepts Connected Relate Insightful Domain Elusive Sharpness

Author:Bill Gates

“The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”

Needs Reason Focus Drink Healthy Drinking Musical Wide Lifestyle Awake Intensity Sensible Healthy Lifestyle Sharpness Wide Awake

Author:Johnny Marr

“All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.”

Writing I Can Facts Certain Term Can Do Quality Amount Scales Etc Print Sharpness

Author:Ansel Adams

“You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.”

People Millions Miles Spots Underestimate Tactics Radar Miles Away Soulless Sharpness

Book:The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)

Source: The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)

“Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.”

Lasts Edges Taoism Sharpness

Author:Laozi

“Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.”

Light Doors Unions Profound Opening Dust Dull Taoism Seals Knots Sharpness

Author:Laozi

“To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.”

Men Firsts Wells Courses Force Quality Principles Cutting Special Intellectual Intuitive Sharpness

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”

Source: Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.”

Knows Giving Identity Mouths Endure Senses Block Dust Settling Taoism Honored Tao Disgrace Primal Knots Blunt Glare Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Sharpness

Author:Laozi

“Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.”

World Art Light Painting Optimistic Clarity Hopefully Colour Australia Australian Wherever You Are Sharpness

Author:Ken Done

“Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.”

Use Mother Speak Taught Speech Sharpness

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.”

Humans May Has Beens Different Might Past Certain Lost Term Views Race Conditions Concepts Abstract Sharpness

Author:Julian Huxley

“The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.”

Offers Glory Sharpness

Author:Kenneth Branagh