Top 100 Be Smart Quotes
#1. If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
Jesse Ventura
#3. It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.
Laura Lippman
#4. Even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
Brandon Mull
#5. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
Sheryl Sandberg
#6. I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
Taylor Hicks
#7. My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar
#8. Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the
Wally Lamb
#9. To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Kamala Harris
#10. This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky
#11. If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
Danica McKellar
#12. You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.
Sam Worthington
#13. Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.
Robertson Davies
#14. Be smart and take your pert little ass out the door and away from danger.
Pert little ass? Frowning, she looked behind herself. From what she could see, her ass - pert or otherwise - looked nonexistent thanks to the shape of her skirt.
Lori Foster
#15. Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter - you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
Desmond Tutu
#16. You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
Cher
#17. Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about what it is you want to be doing and where ... you want to be going, but also be smart enough that you're essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.
Reid Hoffman
#18. I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg
#19. Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.
Bob Saget
#20. Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
Connor Franta
#22. Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#23. Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
John C. Maxwell
#24. CHARLIE: So you can't even see Ivy's point? MATTIE FAE: No. CHARLIE: That Little Charles and Beverly share some kind of ... complication. MATTIE FAE: Honey, you have to be smart to be complicated. CHARLIE: That's our boy. Are you saying our boy isn't smart? MATTIE FAE: Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Tracy Letts
#25. While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.
Marcus Samuelsson
#26. Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.
Jill Shalvis
#27. I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
Garson Kanin
#28. It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.
Jonathan Franzen
#29. People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be ... Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#30. Don't feel so sad and disappointed when the telephone conversation with a friend starts to slow down and become stilted. Just try to be smart, lay it gentle and see it as a great given opportunity, a set up to draw attention to your long awaited goals.
Euginia Herlihy
#31. I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.
Julia Quinn
#32. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
John F. Kerry
#33. For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
Lizzy Caplan
#34. And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
John Green
#35. If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
Albert Einstein
#36. I want her to be smart and kind ... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. Don't assume anything. You don't have to live your life in fear, but know what's around you. Be smart. Don't go blindly into dark alleys or parking lots.
Richelle Mead
#38. Girls should never be afraid to be smart.
Emma Watson
#39. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. If you're making a conscious effort ... someone should be meeting you on the same page. Don't be silly be smart.
Turcois Ominek
#41. (T)he world is always changing. Always. We can't give the next generation a set of guarantees. Best we can do is help them be smart enough and tough enough to deal with whatever comes. You know as well as I do that we're not going to be there forever for them.
Jonathan Maberry
#42. But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#43. 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 irresponsibility.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#45. In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
#46. I don't understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional.
Heather Chapple
#47. That's Australia. She's not dim-witted, she just has trouble remembering to be smart.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
Amber Valletta
#49. I may be smart, but I'm not knowledgeable.
Emma Iadanza
#50. The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.
Aubrey Plaza
#51. Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.
Jean Chatzky
#52. You need to be smart about what you put in your body.
Stacy Keibler
#53. If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
Rifhi Siddiq
#54. I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
Emily Watson
#55. The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.
Rasmus Lerdorf
#56. Exactly, Kitten.Your pride isn't worth it. It's not worth the pain. It's not worth the torture I, or anyone else could put you through. It sure as fuck isn't worth your life. Be smart! Fight the battles you can win and accept the ones you can't. That's how you survive. - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#58. I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.
Vincent Cassel
#59. Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.
James Frey
#60. For those who say you're thinking too big ... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that? ... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.
Eric Schmidt
#61. You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you
Richard Paul Evans
#62. People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
Charlie Munger
#63. I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
Aaron Allston
#64. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
Scott Adams
#65. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#66. Every Unwind believes in their heart of hearts that it won't happen to them - that their parents, no matter how strained things get, will be smart enough not to fall for the net ads, TV commercials, and billboards that say things like Unwinding: the sensible solution.
Neal Shusterman
#67. There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."
Lou Doillon
#68. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
Anita Diamant
#69. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Julia Roberts
#70. It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.
Randy Pausch
#71. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
Karin Slaughter
#72. Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things?
Kieron Gillen
#73. You know, Gray. Don't be your Daddy. Be smart. Find a nice girl to take home to your Gran. You know I'm not that.
Kristen Ashley
#74. There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
#75. I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.
Godfrey
#76. Ronin had tried desperately to be smart about it all. He really, really tried. He knew she was absolutely plowed. He knew she would probably hate him in the morning. He knew with every fiber of his should that giving into the passion she evoked was a bad idea.
But good God, he wanted her.
Sibylla Matilde
#77. I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.
Lily Collins
#78. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#79. If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
Bruno Mars
#80. You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
Lisa Scottoline
#81. I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
Tia Carrere
#82. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.
Lisa Renee Jones
#84. It's better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
#85. Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
#86. Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends.
Fahmid Hassan Prohor
#87. Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.
Guy Maddin
#88. I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
Lauren Graham
#89. If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
Arnold Palmer
#90. It's one thing to be intelligent, but its another to be smart
Jay Scully
#91. I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be - "
"Smart," he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. " I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the problem is, Parker ... I just want you.
Penny Reid
#92. Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
Michael Ramirez
#93. I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.
Sam Worthington
#94. Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.
Daniel Keyes
#95. My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.
Dolph Lundgren
#96. We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
Barry Diller
#97. He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.
Orson Scott Card
#98. We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."
Ann Coulter
#99. It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
Chris Carter
#100. You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Ethan Canin
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