Shrewd Person Quotes

#1. The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool; he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person; he will take advantage of it better than you would.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

Don DeLillo

#3. Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me.

Delano Johnson

#4. You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

Dov Davidoff

#5. Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

Georges St-Pierre

#6. I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Russell Brand

#7. Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.

Allan Kardec

#8. Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful ...

Ritchie Blackmore

#9. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Karen Russell

#10. From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

#11. More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Zac Goldsmith

#12. We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Brian Tracy

#13. I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

Patrick Grant

#14. Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

Jerry A. Coyne

#15. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

#16. I live life and try and smile as much as possible. Family and friends are everything." - "That was my first real lesson. At the end of the day, you could be a hell of a marketer, but you're only as good as what you're marketing.

Scooter Braun

#17. Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#19. Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Edward James Olmos

#20. The Taliban is the worst ... great heroin though.

Creed Bratton