Top 100 Be Smarter Quotes
#1. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.
Anonymous
#2. Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz."
"Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate."
"If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper.
Shayla Black
#3. I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU
Ice-T
#4. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
Steven Pressfield
#5. It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
Stephen Hawking
#7. I cleared my throat, searching for my voice. "There's a good chance you might be smarter than me."
That almost made her smile. "Nah, I just like being around you while you're still breathing.
Lisa Kessler
#8. How do you know about all this?"
"I just happen to be smarter than you is all.
Kiersten White
#9. I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.
Cory Doctorow
#10. You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!
Eric Thomas
#11. I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.
Michelle Rodriguez
#12. By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
Marvin Ammori
#13. That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.
Jimmy Iovine
#14. Less weight and less strength just means you need to be smarter.
Brent Weeks
#16. Be smarter than others imagined.
Be braver than others anticipated.
Be stronger than others calculated.
Be better than others envisioned.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
Warren Buffett
#18. L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
Paige Craig
#19. There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else
but persistent.
Raoul Bott
#20. Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#21. You don't have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.
Pauline Creeden
#22. You can write anything you want to,
a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.
Brenda Ueland
#23. I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
Patrick J. Adams
#24. The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
Ally Carter
#25. Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
#26. When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
Bill Gates
#27. I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
Stone Gossard
#28. well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.
Parker J. Palmer
#29. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
#30. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
Michael Ondaatje
#31. The thing about computers - it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
Frank Herbert
#32. I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.
Christi Paul
#33. I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
Graham Hawkes
#34. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#35. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
Jake M. Johnson
#36. We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
Regina Brett
#37. Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
Marissa Meyer
#38. I scowled and stabbed begrudginly at the stack before scooping up a bite with my fork, but it toppled over and plopped into my lap. I groaned and banged my head on the counter.
Mom frowned, 'You have to be smarter than the pancakes, Ellie.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#39. If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#40. My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.
Brad Thor
#41. Under Donald Trump, our deals will be smarter, our soldiers will have what they need, and our veterans will have what they earned. We will secure our borders, protect our nation. In all this, we will be more serious. And when we do, this nation will start winning again.
Mike Pence
#42. When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier - it takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspirations, and our hearts, which may lead in a very different direction.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.
Kenneth Eade
#44. I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.
Dot Richardson
#45. They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But they can NEVER outwork you. And they can NEVER outprepare you. And they just can't outpractice you. And that's why you'll win.
Robin Sharma
#46. As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,
Gene Sharp
#47. In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
Ze'ev Chafets
#48. You don't need to be smarter; you just need dumber friends.
Lois Greiman
#49. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, you are going to get off first or I am going to die. It's really that simple. I'm not going to be overworked.
Jay Green
#50. If you think you're smart,
think twice to be smarter.
Toba Beta
#51. Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.
Voltaire
#52. I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
Lizz Winstead
#53. Always be smarter than those who hire you
Lena Horne
#54. With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.
Craig Ferguson
#55. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...
Megan Johns
#56. With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.
David Zinczenko
#58. The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.
Mark Bouris
#60. Experts tell us that the global economy will worsen while household appliances will get smarter. By the time your child is twenty-one years old and ready to enter the workforce, all of her job interviews will be conducted by Roombas.
Rick Chillot
#61. It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each
person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great.
Veronica Roth
#62. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
Liane Moriarty
#63. I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.
Hillary Clinton
#64. Rejection's just something that you need to get used to and you need to accept it and you need to know there's always going to be someone that's smarter, prettier, younger, or knows the right person over you.
April Rose
#65. The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.
Robert James Thomson
#66. People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers
#67. I believe that you believe that. But this thing, whatever it is, it's tricky. Manipulative. A liar. And it's smarter than you."
"I'll try not to be offended by that."
"You shouldn't be."
"What do you think it is?"
"Something very old and very evil.
C.K. Walker
#68. In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
Walter Kirn
#69. I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
Idina Menzel
#70. If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
Bing Gordon
#71. We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It's what children want. It's what you grow out of, if you're lucky. If you don't, it's a lifetime of agony.
Robert Goolrick
#72. The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.
Arthur Caplan
#73. Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
Malcolm Gladwell
#74. The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?
John Townsend Trowbridge
#75. Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.
Ivanka Trump
#76. 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
#77. You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.
Peter Watts
#78. There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.
Marion Ross
#79. I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree
aren't you?
Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila
Karen Traviss
#80. Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible.
Piers Anthony
#81. Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.
Steve Maraboli
#82. The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Al Lewis
#83. I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me ... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.
Teri Polo
#84. Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.
Jack Welch
#85. It would probably strip my flesh while giving me vocabulary lessons. I'd be dead but smarter. How's that for glass half full?
A&E Kirk
#86. Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?"
She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter.
George R R Martin
#87. Dogs don't censor themselves. Maybe animals were smarter than people. The dog was so happy. My mom and dad too. It felt good to know that they loved the dog, that they let themselves do that. And somehow it seemed that the dog helped us be a better family.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#88. Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.
Letitia Baldrige
#89. The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
Frank Abagnale
#90. Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.
Kevin R. Stone
#91. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
David Lipsky
#92. So I think, as much as possible, I try to be open myself. I think that's probably something that falls with young people. It's not because I think young people are smarter, because I don't think they are. I think young people are quite actually stupid.
Lukas Moodysson
#93. Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
Dennis Crowley
#94. There's always gonna be be someone better looking, there's always gonna be someone smarter, there's always gonna be someone who works harder. What you have to offer is yourself, so don't lose it, focus on it and try to bring it out
Jared Padalecki
#95. So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.
John F. Kerry
#96. One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell
#98. I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
Gloria Steinem
#99. This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.
Caroline Kepnes
#100. We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter ... It's the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb
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