Shrewd Quotes
66 Shrewd quotes by 60 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
— Joe Queenan
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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
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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
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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
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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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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they…
— Joshua Slocum
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For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these…
— Daniel Suarez
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The President's very shrewd
— Sam Donaldson
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With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits…
— Maggie Shipstead
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Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
— Michael Korda
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