Quotes About Getting Smarter

#1. Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play
that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Robin Hobb

#2. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#3. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

Rebecca McNutt

#4. When you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard, someone is getting smarter, and somebody is winning, just remember that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#5. 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

#6. He'd gone so long without a brain, and the thought of all that wasted time was nearly enough to make him cry - except, of course, that he couldn't. At least he was a king now. That was something. He was powerful. He was smart. And he was getting smarter by the minute.

Danielle Paige

#7. People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

#8. If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

P.T. Barnum

#9. It's Russell Montgomery the Third, actually," said Rusty, still grinning. "But I'd be obliged if you keep that bit of information to yourself."
"I don't imagine any of us cares enough to remember," Jared said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#10. Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.

Charles Koch

#11. The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

Larry The Cable Guy

#12. You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

Warren Buffett

#13. 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

#14. But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease.
Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt ... empty.

Kim Harrison

#15. While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

Robin Sharma

#16. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But

L.M. Montgomery

#17. My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

Anthony Pettis

#18. A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one's own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

Laini Taylor

#19. For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

Dan Savage

#20. I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

James Franco

#21. The gnomes are getting smarter.

Skylar Dorset

#22. I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

Alex Hirsch

#23. I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Jason Bateman

#24. Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

John Petrucci

#25. shadow of authority

Jane Austen

#26. No niche is too small if it's yours.

Seth Godin

#27. So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.

Matthew Quick

#28. Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

#29. But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Tom Peters

#30. In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter - they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

Eoin Colfer

#31. I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

Michael Sheen

#32. All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Bjarke Ingels

#33. Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Drew Houston

#34. In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Peter Singer

#35. There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

Bill Walsh

#36. Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Pope John Paul II

#37. CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

Fareed Zakaria

#38. Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Dave Barry

#39. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Maria Sharapova