“People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalStillsHardDonePlayHard WorkFoolGeniusLimitsSmartPlentyProductiveAttemptingWork DoneTrue Genius Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.” PersonsHardDoneJobsWorkHard WorkSmartEfficientGet The Job DoneWork Smart Author:Roger Delano Hinkins
“Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.” IfsThinkingDoeSaidDoneGamesSmartFairsStealingLegacyVery SmartFair Game Author:Liev Schreiber
“I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.” PeopleDoneCausesSmartGreat ThingsSmart People Author:Lil B
“I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.” PeopleEndsDoneAttentionLaughingModelsSmartAssumingVideoLike MeEducatedPlentyInterviewsArticlesTypicalChasingEarnestNarcissisticMake Me LaughVery Smart Author:Megan Fox
“Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.” DoneMovingSmartNonsenseThings DoneNo NonsenseWork Smart Author:Susan Wojcicki
“I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.” TryingMaySoulDoneRememberFormFeltViewsIntellectualSmartStupidityNobleBitterBeing TrueNecksStretchingVery Smart Author:Corra May Harris
“The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.” DoneFactsJobsInterestingCompanyTeamDiversitySmartRight ThingDiverseConsistently Author:Marilyn C. Nelson
“There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?” PeopleWantLooksDoneTeamSmartThings Done Author:Sam Altman
“Theoretically, the human is supposed to be the smart one. Well, if we are, then we need to be able to adjust to fit the situation rather than just think "Well this is how you work with horses. I've done this on 500 just like you."” IfsThinkingNeedsHumansWellsDoneAbleSituationLike YouFitSmartHorseSupposed To Be Author:Buck Brannaman
“Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.” PeopleDoneFactsSimpleTeamSmartEntrepreneurshipThings DoneSmart PeopleReally SmartUseful Things Author:Joel Spolsky
“If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.” IfsKnowsDoneEnoughHelpingStoriesShowsLosesAttentionFocusPolicyTvsPoliticianSmartDeserveCompromiseWeedTv ShowsAutonomyThings Done Author:Tony Goldwyn
“I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.” ThinkingTryingLooksHardDoneWholeClearPerspectiveProudSmartWeightLook At MeHey You Author:David Crosby
“I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?” PeopleKnowsDoneEnoughGuyGamesAttentionCreativeWifeCallingDrugSmartThis GuyAttackingDui Author:Terrell Owens
“I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.” WorldLittlesDoneStrongSmartIndependentGenreSci FiHesitant Author:Laura Vandervoort
“If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.” IfsKnowsWantDoneSmartFeedbackLoops Author:Bill Gates
“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
“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
“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'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
“The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'” WorldDonePrinciplesSmartManagementAppreciated Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it.” ThinkingDoneGuySmartCuteBusinessmanSmall BusinessGreat Business Author:Barack Obama
“I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being. He was a very thoughtful, self-educated, complex, magnanimous human being, who was very, very strong, very smart and very canny, with a very strong sense of what was right and what was wrong. Through all that, he's become an icon, over the years, and some of his warmth and humanity has been lost. You don't tend to think of Lincoln as this warm, funny person, but he was.” ThinkingDoneHumanityReadingStrongShareSmartThoughtfulWarmthVery StrongVery Smart Author:Billy Campbell
“When it comes to understanding the nuts and bolts of the details of any policy, the elites haven't the slightest idea. I'm sure you've done this, too. In every gun control debate, somebody, some smart aleck will pop up and say the truth. The guns not killing anybody. The person pulling the trigger is. And then somebody will say, you know if you people were really serious, you'd ban bullets, a gun's worthless without bullets. And here we are. Here we are. Isn't it much easier to ban the production, the manufacture, and the sale of bullets than guns?” PeopleDoneUnderstandingPolicySeriousSmartGunKillingDebateGun ControlWorthlessSmart Aleck Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug #2" in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.” MenDoneSmartRepresentationThugVery Smart Author:Anthony Mackie
“There are a few people that I always say, "Hey, what do you think of this?" The minute that you know that you want this particular person to hear it, you know that you're pretty much done - although you're doing it to hear some feedback. It's a smart move to know whose ears you want.” PeopleThinkingDoneMovingSmartFeedback Author:John Cale
“I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.” DoneSmartJokesDumb Author:Mike Myers
“Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.” WayNeedsDoneDadSafeSmartGunMy DadUncles Author:Ted Nugent
“'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.” IfsWellsDoneTodayFilmWinningSmartContemporaryFilmmakingWell DoneBest Picture Author:Eli Roth
“I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.” ThinkingPersonsArtDoneTodayFilmRealizingSmartSakeArt FilmsSmart Person Author:Halle Berry
“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.” MindSoulReasonDoneActionPainBehindsSmartConsciousShameFleshWoundsConfusionWickedRepentancePerpetualTormentRemorseUlcers Author:Plutarch
“If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.” IfsThinkingMenShouldStillsDoneFacesCreativeHonestSmartMen And WomenTraditionMiracleBillsCompetitionIllnessNobleContradictionGatesCashIdolatryBuffettSmart Man Author:David Brin
“Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.” IfsWantDonePositionRight NowSmartScientistPainterPortraitsRenaissancePatron Author:Michael Crichton
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” LittlesDoneSpiritHabitSmartExcellence Author:Florence Nightingale