Quotes About Not Being The Smartest

#1. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

Ramit Sethi

#2. If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

Steve Coogan

#3. Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

Warren Zevon

#4. We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong. . .

David McCullough

#5. Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.

Rick Cook

#7. Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
Anne: "He did?"
Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. You can be one of the smartest students in this school if you actually listened to what was being said and stopped focussing so much on how everything affects you.

Travis Berketa

#10. To be honest, I don't think you deserved her, but I don't think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right

David Nicholls

#11. I may not be the skinniest, smartest, prettiest,or happiest. But I am myself. Being myself, is being perfect. Just as everyone else being themselves is being perfect.

Anna Glazebrook

#12. Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

Godfrey

#13. That probably wasn't the smartest thing you've ever done. Points for style, I guess. Points off for being too stupid to live.

Seanan McGuire

#14. Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.

Mike Posner

#16. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.

Jack Canfield

#17. Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

Reba McEntire

#18. Being honest to yourself is the smartest you can ever do.Do no allow the words of others to lead you to a road of confussion, follow your heart beat.

Osunsakin Adewale

#19. I could always accept not being the prettiest or the smartest
Because I had the best of friends.
A and A they called us.
But, Anna, somehow, I failed you.
And now I've lost the best part of
Me.

Terri Fields

#20. We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

Dawn Staley

#21. Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

Nick Bostrom

#22. I decided to be the best and the smartest.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Dee Dee Ramone

#24. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Matt Chandler

#25. I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Robin S. Sharma

#26. Grandma took her wheel and spun.
And the wheel-whir of the long days filled the croft; and this one wheel spinning was like the wheel of time, which carries our souls away to its own land.

Halldor Laxness

#27. Sometimes it ain't about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain't about being the smartest. Sometimes it's not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it's about consistency! Consistency!

Eric Thomas

#28. I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Douglas Coupland

#29. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.

Walter Isaacson