Being Smart Is Not Enough Quotes

#1. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

#2. I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

Greg Graffin

#3. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

#4. Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

Tony DiCicco

#5. You think being mean is enough. Being mean and being smart is better

Penny Reid

#6. Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Audre Lorde

#7. I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

Nolan Gould

#8. Always give your reader credit for being smart enough to figure out what you want to say.

Daniel Schwabauer

#9. We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

Chris Matakas

#10. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

Seth Godin

#12. I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.

David Walton

#13. 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

#14. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.

Frank Sennett

#15. I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

Charlie Adam

#16. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret

Anthony Paull

#17. When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

Arnold Palmer

#18. The short one with the scar shifted from foot to foot. "Yeah, this is Russell," he motioned at the Indian, "and this is Newt." I almost said, "Newt," aloud, but figured we had enough problems without me being a smart-ass. And people say I don't know when to keep my mouth shut.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Over time, jealousy becomes an element as indispensable as paint in the life of the master artist.

Orhan Pamuk

#21. I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

Mary J. Blige

#22. Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.

Seanan McGuire

#23. The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

Frank Zappa

#24. Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

Halle Berry

#25. What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Hugh Masekela

#26. You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

Joe Louis

#27. I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

Rick Perry

#28. What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?"

- Fatts - Coffee and Sugar

C. Sean McGee

#29. Life is too short because we die.

Christopher Locke