“I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.” FilmFoundInterestingSmartSilentErasRebelliousIconsBrooksKansasSilent Films Author:Laura Moriarty
“We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.” EnoughBeliefTaughtSmartConsciousEndlessOur FamilyGood EnoughLimiting Beliefs Author:Deborah King
“"There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.” IfsWritingWantedRememberOrderReadingWonderStylePaperSmartCriticalAnalysisShockBrutalPeersPapersInabilityInitialsRefusalUnclearConvoluted Author:Mary J. Miller
“We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.” ThinkingI CanIdeasShowsWould BeMovingOne ThingBenefitsSmartNo IdeaHindsightReally SmartDaredevil Author:Charlie Cox
“Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.” NeedsStoriesSmartEditorsReally SmartReally AmazingAstute Author:Ru Freeman
“Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.” IfsGuyWonderfulSeriousSmartScaredBarsIntimidatingMeasuringSmart And FunnyMeasuring Up Author:Peter Jacobson
“When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.” ThinkingShouldWritingSaidNovelCollegeSmartMemoirProseProfessorsNonfictionGazingVery SmartNavelNavel Gazing Author:Melissa Febos
“I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTechnologyMagicSmartOriginalsMysteriousObservationRelyDevicesAutomobile Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.” PeopleSmartCautiousStubbornnessDonkeyVery SmartCautiousness Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“While lawyers are arguing about the PATRIOT Act or the America Freedom Act, the point is, the terrorists have moved on, the technologists have moved on, and we, the United States of America, are not taking advantage of the latest and greatest in technology the terrorists are. We need to get smart about it.” NeedsStatesAmericaUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesSmartAdvantageMovedLawyerArguingTerroristPatriotUnited States Of AmericaMoved OnTaking AdvantagePatriot ActAmerica Freedom Author:Carly Fiorina
“The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.” I CanProcessRoomsCreativeImagineSmartCreative Process Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“Where you go to these really good schools, and it's all about preparing for the next step of success. That was never even on my radar. My job is to explore the world, because this is my one life, you know? That's totally how I see it. But I came to Yale just being like, Yeah, now I get to explore this place and meet all these people who are really smart. And I was just excited to be surrounded by people who were as smart as me or were probably smarter. And I just did not expect the level of competition and bitterness and anger, and, the tearing each other down.” PeopleKnowsWorldSchoolJobsNextLevelsStepsSmartYeahCompetitionExcitedBitternessJust BeingSmarterPreparingNext StepsRadarYaleReally SmartGood School Author:Larkin Grimm
“The Muslim women that I have met are super-powerful and amazing and smart and they are, they're not allowing themselves to be held back by the laws that exist. And you know, the Internet exists now, and mobile phones are freeing up stuff. I have a really good friend who's from Iran and a really good friend who's from Kuwait, and they talk about getting music on the black market and how that's such an intense, amazing experience. And how they value the music so much more, because it's such a risk to own it.” KnowsLawValuesStuffBlackPowerfulRiskInternetMetsSmartPhonesIntenseIranAllowingGood FriendMobileMobile PhonesKuwaitAmazing ExperiencesMuslim WomenReally Good Friends Author:Larkin Grimm
“I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.” PeopleKindDifferentSocialStuffMediaPerspectiveSmartUglySocial MediaHearingBad ThingsSmart PeopleDifferent PerspectiveBacklash Author:Paul Bloom
“If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.” PeopleIfsFightingFocusSmartOppressionThemeWorking ItSmart PeopleFighting Back Author:Molly Crabapple
“I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.” UseBodyLyingBirthSmartResponsibleBeing ResponsibleBirth ControlSmart Women Author:Molly Crabapple
“In light of Jeb Bush's recent fumbles on Iraq , maybe the Clinton campaign is making the smart move here by not saying.” LightMovingSmartClintonIraqCampaigns Author:Chris Matthews
“If Hillary Clinton wants to back into the White House, then sure, she can do it like this, like in 1991, `92, the Clintons had decided, well, where are we going to be in spectrum in order to be president. But if she wants to be build up some mandate for an agenda, and actually going to accomplish that agenda, she would actually be smart to start building support for her now.” IfsWantWellsOrderHousePresidentCan DoWhiteSupportBuildingSmartDecidedClintonAccomplishAgendasWhite HouseSpectrumBeing SmartMandates Author:Ryan Grim
“MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation. There's something about the adventurer aspect of that show that I loved, that he went on all these great missions and saved people without having to use guns or anything like that. And I think that show might even be coming back, too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseShowsMightGuyCoursesSituationKnow HowSmartGunAspectMy FavoriteMissionsSavedWitAll TimeComing BackAdventurerMacgyver Author:Rhys Darby
“If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughStarsAttentionRocksRevolutionSmartPopulationPay AttentionIndigenousRock StarCubaCubanCuban Revolution Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I've produced things myself, I was like telling the producers how to do the show. They really didn't appreciate that, they just wanted a dumb rocker on the show and they got some guy telling them how to do their job. So being too smart can get in the way.” WayShowsWantedJobsGuySmartAppreciateProducersDumbRockers Author:Dee Snider
“I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.” PersonsSeemsSmartCome UpScreensAdvertisementsSmart Person Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“It's in the silence that I'm most able to hear the tiny voices that tell me I'm not good enough, smart enough, or cool enough. I try to hear them for what they are: my own creations. Sitting with them, letting them speak, hearing them out, and giving them back the silence that I'm now sitting in has shown me that, quite often, they shut up.” GivingTryingEnoughAbleSpeakVoiceMy OwnSilenceCreationSmartSittingHearingTinyGood EnoughShut UpNot Good Enough Author:Eric Lange
“I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. My parents were smart to keep my brother and I away from that nonsense. I do live in the LA area now, but I keep my balance by hiking in the mountains with my dogs and taking trail rides every week on my horse.” FeelsEnoughGrowsParentAnimalGrowing UpWeekDogBrotherBalanceBlessingMountainSmartAreasHollywoodHorseFortunateMy BrotherNonsenseHikingGroundedTrailsMy DogHiking In The MountainsNature And Animals Author:Alison Eastwood
“It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.” YearsFirstsTodayChoicesHalfMorningLike YouSmartGainsDetermineInsightGet UpShootingBucks Author:Robert Schwentke
“I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.” ThinkingKnowsWantNeedsYoungParentAdviceSmartYoung WomenWatsonEmmaGreat Parents Author:Ethan Hawke
“I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.” IfsTryingKindEnoughRunningGamesTeamFansHavensBasketballSmartPicksGradesClueBasketball TeamNinth Grade Author:Steve Ballmer
“My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.” ThinkingSchoolDiesCausesAbilityFireSmartMy FavoriteVillainSavagesReally CoolOld SchoolGadgetsVandals Author:Casper Crump
“As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.” PeopleWorldSaidStatesUnitedUnited StatesSecurityDemandApproachSmartSafetyUnionsPatientAddresses Author:Barack Obama
“I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point I was done writing about Andy, done talking about Andy....but now, I kind of love it. All these smart, attractive young people think I'm cool! So here I am a guy in his sixties with all of these interesting friends in their twenties. It's very stimulating and keeps me very much in the present.” PeopleThinkingWritingFirstsKindMeanBookDoneYoungGuyInterestingTalkingSmartTwentiesAttractiveReviewsSixtyHere I AmKinds Of Love Author:Bob Colacello
“What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.” IfsWorldBelieveIdeasCountryI BelieveCommunityDarkHonorSmartStandardsConsequenceIdeologyDefinedIranModestyVesselArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBeing SmartPragmatic Author:Asra Nomani
“I can't risk getting hurt. I have to be smart about what I'm doing. But the competitor in you wants to try it, wants to see how you would do. But at the same time, after a few rounds I'm so tired, and my arms are so tired after punching. It's a whole different monster.” WantTryingI CanDifferentWholeHurtRiskArmsSmartTiredRoundsMonstersCompetitorsBeing SmartPunchingGetting Hurt Author:Cullen Jenkins
“I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.” KindKidsJobsSeeingSkillsSmartEmploymentAwkwardSocially Awkward Author:Temple Grandin
“I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.” ThinkingShouldBelieveLooksSmartShotsDon't BelieveBrilliant Author:Warren Beatty
“There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."” ThinkingTryingNextWrittenSmartAbsurdNext DayEmbarrassingBeing SmartNausea Author:Lou Doillon
“It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.” IfsWorldEnoughFictionTomorrowSmartLettersScience FictionLove Letter Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.” PeopleTryingYearsKidsLastsEnergyNumbersGoneDyingFiguresRevolutionSmartThirdsAverageIntensitySmart PeopleIndustrial RevolutionLife SpanAverage Life Author:Bill Gates
“The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual.” FeelsBelieveKindMayDifferentSmartDon't BelieveDifferent KindsRelaxedEleganceCasual Author:Patrick Grant
“I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.” DifferentShowsRealityTodayTypeSmartBlessedCompetitionWittyWho I AmInnovativeReality ShowsBacklash Author:Eva Marcille
“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.” WayStillsWholeLastsOrderForceSocialInfluenceMiddleEffectsCenturyProduceSmartPhilosopherRealmsMainstreamCountenanceMental PowerPhysical Force Author:David Papineau
“You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that. I want to be able to be free and explore. So I won't really watch it, but I would love to do, like, The Incredibles, or something like that. I would love to do a movie that's really, really good and animated. Inside Out, something like that. Something really smart.” WantSelfAbleWatchesSmartConsciousIncrediblesCriticizeAnimatedSelf ConsciousReally Smart Author:Jackee Harry
“Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.” PeopleMenWayStatesInterestUnitedMillionsUnited StatesPoliticianLuckySmartRationalDumbBusinessman Author:George Friedman
“I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.” PeoplePoliticalCertainLevelsSkillsSmartConvincedSmarterHierarchyDifferentiateSavvy Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.” ThinkingHas BeensReasonGrowthCompanyHonorApproachSmartSpeedRingsSteadyVery Smart Author:Adam Cole
“I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.” KnowsMenShouldMadeDoneWholeLaughingTheorySmartShould HaveVarietyReally CoolReally Smart Author:Dan Trachtenberg
“The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.” PeopleChristianSpiritualConsciousnessSmartScientistLegacyInvestigationInquirySmart PeopleInquisition Author:David O. Russell
“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 no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.” PeopleTryingMindIdeasBigsComedySmartTownsNo IdeaSmart PeopleColoradoBoulders Author:George Meyer
“They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.” PeopleWantLittlesFeelingsWantedBitsLittle BitSmartPaintChineseBrushesVery SmartValuation Author:Jamie Dimon