Book Smarts Vs Street Smarts Quotes

#1. There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, Either is both, and Both is neither.

Plutarch

#2. Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

Wes Craven

#3. I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

Brittany Murphy

#4. The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

Bob Dylan

#5. When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are changed, and our fiction carries the power of truth and the fingerprints of our God on every page.

Amy Wallace

#6. You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#7. Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Paul Theroux

#8. For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

Whitey Herzog

#9. The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Nolan Bushnell

#10. The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

James Plath

#11. Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

Ray Kurzweil

#12. Hope was right below wishful thinking and above a rain fucking dance.

V. Theia

#13. Don't try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience - every reader is a different person.

William Zinsser

#14. Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.

L.M. Montgomery