Shrewd Quotes

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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term.… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.… — Jerome Bruner
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in… — Jimmy Carter
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the… — Adolf Hitler
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in… — John Brown
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't… — Rod Stewart
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd… — P.G. Wodehouse
Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will… — Charles Caleb Colton
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows… — Rex Stout
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one ..… — Ritchie Blackmore
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher
S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the… — Paul E. Gray
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. — Joe Queenan
I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd,… — Brian Clough
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might… — Pal Benko
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative… — David Platt
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are… — John Dewey

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