Ambition Quote by Irving Sandler

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

— Sonny Bill Williams

This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew…

— Kamasi Washington

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of…

— Garfield Sobers

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to…

— Garrison Keillor

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

— Lois Lowry

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so…

— Tucker Max

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

— Scott Hamilton

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

— Paul Arden

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

— Graham Hawkes

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

— Steph McGovern

It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful…

— Victor J. Stenger

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I…

— Chris Brown