Quotes About Working Smarter

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

Anthony Pettis

#2. Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#3. The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Tim Ferriss

#5. I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

Jeet Banerjee

#6. In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Isaac Asimov

#7. The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

Sharon Stone

#8. The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

Andrew Stanton

#9. I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

Jack Lew

#10. The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Kylie Minogue

#11. Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

Azim Premji

#12. All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#13. We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#14. Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer ... Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cummings

#15. I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

Ben Stein

#16. The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.

Alex Pareene

#17. I was unstoppable, slamming down on the keys as if I were playing before a packed concert hall. Write! Write! Write!

Tiffanie DiDonato

#18. Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

#19. The Minister had a great respect for Pyle - Pyle had taken a good degree in - well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far Eastern studies (he had read a lot of books).

Graham Greene

#20. Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

Andrew Stanton

#21. You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind.
You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart.
You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

Patricia MacLachlan

#23. The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

William A. Henry III

#24. All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

John Lubbock

#25. I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

Malik Yoba

#26. 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

#27. The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#28. It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each
person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn't too great.

Veronica Roth

#29. I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death.

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