Smart Quotes
2304 quotes by 1697 authors
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If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
— Ken Blanchard
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His…
— Bill Russell
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation,…
— Allen Iverson
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation,…
— Hakeem Olajuwon
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A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
— Lucille Ball
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Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.
— Dave Barry
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A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
— Evan Esar
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I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart,…
— Philip Roth
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
— Samuel Johnson
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that…
— Bill Bryson
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I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the…
— Bill Gates
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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that…
— Bill Gates
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart…
— Carl Sagan
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Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I…
— Guy Kawasaki
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I'm not smart enough to lie
— Ronald Reagan
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As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -…
— Jay Leno
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There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is…
— Donny Deutsch
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