Quotes About Street Smarts

#1. I got where I am by a combination of guile, street smarts, and perfectly timed assassinations," VanderVoort says. "If you can't out think 'em, out maneuver 'em, or intimidate 'em then be sure to put a bullet between their eyebrows.

Jake Bible

#2. Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with.

Peter Schjeldahl

#3. 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

#4. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.

Peter Boghossian

#5. Then the nickel must have dropped when he realized I had pranked him as he groaned under his breath, "Bob!"
Doug's been trying to get back at me for years. But he can't, because I'm a lawyer. You don't get into and through law school like I did without gaining a few street smarts.

Bob Goff

#6. Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

Jessica Valenti

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

Whitey Herzog

#8. I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

Alexandra Chando

#9. I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

J. B. Smoove

#10. I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

Jennifer Lawrence

#11. When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

Flea

#12. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

Mao Zedong

#13. Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be.

Erin Mckittrick

#14. Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

Donald Miller

#15. Vivi held up the front page of the New York Times, pointing out the headline: 'The Grinch Who Killed Christmas.'
"Way to go, Grinch,

Debbie Mason

#16. Europe is and will be a Union of States.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#17. A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Mark Rubinstein

#18. We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.

Melissa Marr

#19. The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#20. Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Cuba Gooding Jr.