“One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.” KnowsBookJobsMovingActorsLike YouSmartExpertsPerks Author:Amy Ryan
“I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.” ThinkingIdeasMovingEnergySmartEfficiencyCleanersEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton
“I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.” TryingLittlesPersonsEnoughMovingActorsFatherJourneyTypeHusbandComfortableSmartWake UpGood EnoughWakingBeing SmartDissatisfied Author:Will Smith
“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .” YearsRunningMovingNightGivenSportsTelevisionFootballProductsSmartAffairFinancialEntertainmentMagnificentLooking BackMondayRevenueLove AffairReconcileFeesRetainingMonday NightMonday Night Football Author:George Bodenheimer
“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMovingDifferencesClassMediaPolicyAdventureInvolvedCivilizationApproachSmartSolutionsManagementDon't BelieveEstablishmentPanicAgricultureApocalypseStarvationSmart PeopleHuman CivilizationClass Differences Author:Terence McKenna
“People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindLooksMovingPoliticianSmartAll Things Author:Chris Matthews
“Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.” DoneMovingSmartNonsenseThings DoneNo NonsenseWork Smart Author:Susan Wojcicki
“He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.” SaidMomentsMightFacesMovingWomenFieldsIgnoranceConversationSmartExploding Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” ThinkingMenShouldLooksArtSometimesProblemMovingUsedSimpleTreeCrazyFoolGeniusSmartOppositesBiggerIntelligentComplexesSolveBranchesArt And ScienceHazySame Thinking Author:Albert Einstein
“I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.” KnowsWantHeartDifferentEnoughHomeMovingPossibilitySmartPursueGatesPearlsItemsPaparazziDensity Author:John Mayer
“I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.” FirstsKindStillsI CanDifferentStoriesAmericaMovingDifferencesStruggleDevelopmentConversationSmartEuropeWork OutHeyImmigrantsLockedRefugee Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBeautifulMovingSongGirlWonderfulSmartStandingYeahShouldersBeautiful Girl Author:Dolly Parton
“Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.” IfsWellsTwoMomentsMovingFeltFictionNovelWrittenSmartPainfulMemoirAgentsFantasticThings To DoNot SureMiningPainful Moments Author:Janice Erlbaum
“I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsSelfMovingSoundTalkingListeningSmartSelf RealizationRealizationTherapyPaceReactingVery SmartSlower Pace Author:Natalie Maines
“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
“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
“My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.” IfsWayYearsHas BeensRememberMovingWaitingCareersMonthsSmartYears AgoFestivalsRemember MeEdinburgh Author:Bill Burr
“My grandmother was extremely smart when it came to money, but she also worried a lot about not having enough. So it's with her in mind that I aim to explain complicated financial things so the folks like her won't be afraid to make certain money moves.” MindEnoughMovingCertainSmartAimFinancialFolksComplicatedWorriedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike Her Author:Michelle Singletary
“We hated to see Coach Riley go. Coach Riley is a very smart individual and he knows his coaching style. He also knows how long to stay with it and move on. He is a very demanding individual. When you coach at that level like that it tends to whirl the players.” KnowsLongMovingIndividualLevelsKnow HowPlayerStyleSmartCoachesHatedCoachingVery Smart Author:John Starks
“There's a difference between what I call a dumb ghost and a smart ghost. The smart ghost is Hamlet's father - you know, he says, "Get revenge, my son!" That's incredibly rare. It's much more the grey lady in the same place everyday, moving across the floor.” KnowsMovingFatherDifferencesSonSmartEverydayRevengeGhostDumbMy SonGrey Author:Peter James
“I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.” FirstsBelieveMovingDecisionForgetMistakeWorstCarSmartNever ForgetBelieve In MeSigningBonusPlaces To LiveBusiness Decisions Author:Terry Crews
“One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or to convey a theme or from some existing plan, the result was usually pretty boring. My intuitive move, whenever I'm considering writing something, is to steer towards what feels enjoyable. Another way of saying it is, you just try to avoid the "sucky." If you start to think of a story and a way to tell it, and your reaction is kind of like, Ugh, that's going to be hard, then you don't want to do that.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindMovingSmartBoringEnjoyableBeing Smart Author:George Saunders
“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
“Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.” FeelsLooksRealUseMovingEasyStuffSmartCleanHeavyMessyExitReal RelationshipReal Stuff Book:The contemporary Bauman Source: The contemporary Bauman
“Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.” WellsImportantBigsLightMovingNightNamesKnowingFiveCarPositionObjectsFootballColorDrinkSixSmartToolsBeerChestsBreakfastMissionaryMondayTruckDrainsGridsProtocolTexanMonday NightPower ToolsMonday Night FootballLight Beer Book:Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series Source: Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series
“That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier." "Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain." "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.” NeedsAbleMovingBattleSmartBreathsFingersSorrySoldierHeyCheeksCaptainsCatchingSydneyMastermindSonya Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.” MenEndsHandsMovingSmartLipsShouldersNakedHipsMasculineSpineChucklesSmart ManHuskies Author:Nalini Singh