“The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.” WantDoeEnoughRealizingCommunitySmartTeenagerJust BeingPrivilegedBeing SmartGood RelationshipRelationships With Others Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.” IfsThinkingWayMeanEnoughCausesBenefitsSmartMachinesRageSavvyRage Against The Machine Author:Ice Cube
“What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.” ThinkingRealSometimesShowsAudienceSeeingTalentTypeSmartTrainingTechniqueTrendsNutsIdolsHiringAmerican IdolCaliber Author:Hugh Panaro
“I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do. I start every day with a protein shake, with my vanilla Almond Breeze, and my kids start their day the same way as well. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies. And also taking the time to enjoy things, and to appreciate the process.” WayWantWellsHardBodyKidsProcessEnjoyPiecesHugeSmartAppreciateShakesEfficientNutritionPuzzlesBreezeProteinBeing SmartVanillaAlmonds Author:Kerri Walsh
“Ideally we're going to stay at an American hotel. We just want to take every precaution. Because if you get sick out there, and you're playing in that hot sun and you get depleted, it's going to be a problem. So that would be the only other thing I think that athletes on a whole are going to be worried about. But again, we have to do our part and take every precaution and be smart.” IfsThinkingWantWholeProblemWould BeSunSmartSickHotAthleteWorriedHotelBeing SmartPrecautionHot Sun Author:Kerri Walsh
“He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.” PerfectQuietSmartBrilliantReally CoolVery SmartQuip Author:Earl Scruggs
“Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.” PeopleEnoughAdviceTerribleSmart Author:Travis Morrison
“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.” LittlesImportantShowsWantedDifficultBehindsHalfRecordsOur LivesWifeSceneLuckyQuietBandSmartGuitarPartnersChecksLike MeBehind The ScenesVery SmartGuitar Music Author:Johnny Marr
“My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.” KnowsSelfBeautifulWifeInfluenceMomSmartFeySelf Deprecating Author:Laura Benanti
“As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.” PeopleHelpingBigsTelevisionTvsSmartTricksBig ThingsHelping Each Other Author:Akiva Goldsman
“My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.” DifferentEnoughBrainTeachTeachingStudentsLuckySmartGraduatesVery SmartGraduate Students Author:Dana Spiotta
“Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.” ThinkingDifferentLeftSmartContinuingCapsReally SmartStorylineBlahSeamless Author:Jeremy Renner
“The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.” TurnsTruth IsSmartBunchDopeUnattractive Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.” MindFeelingsDreamSmartReflectionConcernPracticalsYour Dreams Author:Charles McPhee
“I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.” ThinkingHonorSmartMy FavoriteBritishClever Author:Gemma Arterton
“I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would be hard to dislike this man. I don't know why, but I'm sure other directors have felt the same when casting him. Oliver is goofy yet formidable, smart but likeable... I didn't want the character of Alex to be nasty or demonised. I wanted him to be struggling with his actions.” KnowsMenWantHardCharacterWould BeActionWantedFeltDifficultStruggleDirectorsSmartDislikeNastyCastingAlexFormidableGoofyLikeable Author:Nicole Holofcener
“Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.” IfsMayFactsKidsSchoolBlackBoysEmotionalSmartSupposed To BeEnjoymentLiteracyLatinoCombiningOreosEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi
“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
“The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.” IfsWellsUseRealityHappensGuyCompanyTomorrowSmartCongressArguingBad GuysBansEncryption Author:Tim Cook
“There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.” LongHomeGuySecretInformationConversationSmartFinancialPhonesAvailableValuableListsEnormousBad Guys Author:Tim Cook
“I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into a speed dating event, you know, thinking about what it is we're looking for in a mate and so you ask people, like women will say "I'm looking for somebody who is really kind and sincere and smart and funny."” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsDoneAsksWalksInterestingNumbersStudyEventsSmartDatingSpeedSincereMatesSmart And Funny Author:Sheena Iyengar
“And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them.” IfsKnowsGivingShouldWellsLooksKindSaidImportantMatterGuyFiveSixSmartResponseRateCharacteristicsTypicalThey SaidBeing Smart Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.” BookStoriesUseCertainCoursesFoundLinesInterestingAttentionSubjectsCrimePaperSmartCriminalsCleverMannersCodeRealisticArticlesJumpingFilesVery SmartJumping Off Author:Sue Grafton
“The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?” KnowsNeedsWellsI CanShowsProblemCertainKnow HowMomSmartYeahSolveDaily Show Author:Aasif Mandvi
“My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.” StillsKidsSchoolGuyGamesNew YorkMinesBrotherSmartBeatsHigh SchoolMy BrotherThis GuyCrushedBrooklynSmart KidBrooklyn New York Author:Maurice Ashley
“I don't see what the alternative to risk management is. If it's just getting rid of the models and instead using the smart people who can figure it out? How do you train them? What do you teach them? Do you just put them in a cockpit and let them stumble for 10 years of their life and then after that they're good at it?” PeopleIfsYearsTeachRiskFiguresModelsSmartManagementTrainAlternativesRisk ManagementSmart PeopleCockpit Author:Robert F. Engle
“The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'” WorldDonePrinciplesSmartManagementAppreciated Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.” IfsKnowsMeanPlayHelpingHandsLessonsSmartAppreciateRefuseFoolishHelpfulWhy Not Author:Julie Hebert
“The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices” ChoicesPrinciplesEffectsHugeSmartSeriesRewardsCompoundsSmart Choices Author:Darren Hardy
“I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.” KidsSchoolAnswersIntellectualSmartIntelligenceOnly Time Author:Gene Perret
“What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?” IfsMeanChildrenDoeFunnySmartStrangerCleverLapSmall Child Author:Ian O'Doherty
“Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It’s a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.” StoriesUseHandsYoungWinningDealsWatchesAudienceSixSmartCastsBrokeKicksOddsGiftedVegasLivelyTrue StoryKevinMit Author:Peter Travers
“I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.” PeopleBelieveSuccessfulSmartInstanceSurroundMentorSuccessful PeopleSmart PeopleMaverick Author:Brendon Burchard
“Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.” MenMatterStrongSmartBetrayalBetrayStrong WomenBellyBetrayedDownfall Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsChildrenArtRealUseCareArtistImagineSmartResourcesTradeConstantFeel GoodExpensiveExcessFeel BetterPercentages Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Practice to look stupid, practice to look like you are not good enough or smart enough where you couldn't do things right and get over it anyway. The truth of the matter is we are all going to feel that way.” WayFeelsLooksMatterEnoughPracticeStupidLike YouSmartOver ItGood EnoughGet OverNot Good Enough Author:John Assaraf
“The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.” PeopleProblemInterestReligiousEconomicSmartSincereSincerityVery Smart Author:Tariq Ramadan
“My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really quick to tell me when I'm wrong. That's a true friend. She's loyal, smart, witty and intelligent. She loves family and loves to travel. All the things I love!” FunSidesSmartAnd LoveIntelligentWittyHaving FunLoyalMy Best FriendTrue FriendMamaFamily LoveThings I LoveLove And Family Author:Reba McEntire
“I was in the recording studio when Pink was recording for a part of the gay rights anthem. It was just amazing to watch her perform. She's just such an incredible singer. She so funny, and so smart, yet she's doing it for this silly, silly song.” SongWatchesRightsGaySmartIncrediblesStudiosSingersSillyGay RightsAnthemRecording Studio Author:Judd Apatow
“When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."” ThinkingMindPersonsSaidSonTrumpSmartBluePracticalsBillionaireBarkCollarsVery SmartBlue CollarSmart Person Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“I just take credit for being smart enough to find a guy as smart as Benett [Miller] to tell the story [of "Moneyball"].” EnoughStoriesGuySmartCreditBeing Smart Author:Brad Pitt
“You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.” IfsGovernmentDealsSmart Author:Joe Arpaio
“It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it.” ThinkingWritingKindBigsHappensFilmFunStarsInterestingStupidMaterialsElementsSmartWeightIntelligentHistoricalSillyBudgetsFascinatedReally InterestingVery SmartNot Stupid Author:Charlize Theron
“I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more in smart ways about your otherness, rather than doing the hard work of your job.” ThinkingWayHardJobsTalkingHard WorkSmartSpendingReflectingInsidiousOtherness Author:Mindy Kaling
“That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.” EndsSometimesGuyPowerfulSmartCharismaticSmart Women Author:Allison Grodner
“I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.” FeelsChildrenChoicesAsksParentSmartGrandmaMy Grandma Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Somehow [Barak] Obama's is much more disgusting than others, because he is smart and we all "know that he knows". He is thoroughly dishonest and it is clear.” KnowsClearSmartDisgustingBarak Obama Author:Andre Vltchek
“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.” MenLoveGuyWomenSmartIntelligenceWittyDumbSmart PeopleFunny RelationshipWomen EqualityFunny WomenSmartnessSmart WomenType Of GuyDumb PeopleMen BashingFunny Men And WomenDumbnessSmart GuyDumb WomenBehind Every Successful ManDumb Guy Author:Erica Jong
“You know, Hillary Clinton's out there saying, we need smart diplomacy. We need to do smart power. And that means empathizing with our enemy, understanding their grievances, like we understand the grievances of homosexuals, like we understand the grievances of African-Americans. We must learn to understand the grievances of ISIS.” KnowsNeedsMeanUnderstandingEnemySmartClintonAfrican AmericanHomosexualDiplomacyIsisGrievance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."” WantSaidIdeasWantedDiesSoundEventsSmartOkayBoxesShakesExecutivesMortalityAshesClicksVery Smart Author:Denis Leary