Smarter Than You Quotes

#1. If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell Banks

#2. Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

John Wayne

#3. I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

Robert Barry

#4. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#5. Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Orson Scott Card

#6. I knew those fuckers were smarter than they appeared. Dammit, first they're runners, now they're climbers. They're breaking all the fucking zombie rules! Juan looked personally insulted by this development.

Rhiannon Frater

#7. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.

Anonymous

#8. So, could you hack your microbiome to make yourself healthier, happier, and smarter too?

Anonymous

#9. I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

Kurt Fuller

#10. Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

Ashton Kutcher

#11. Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

Paul Graham

#12. I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

Ernest Cline

#13. You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

Brad Stone

#14. In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way.

Scott Adams

#15. Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

Jonathan V. Last

#16. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

George Steinbrenner

#17. Smarter is always the answer.

Samuel J. Palmisano

#18. Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Paul Haggis

#19. Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.

A.L. Jackson

#20. 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

#21. Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

Martin Henderson

#22. I try my best to surround myself with people who're smarter than I'm; individuals who add values; who stretch me; optimistic & full of light

Assegid Habtewold

#23. Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Lou Duva

#25. There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

Ed Rollins

#26. The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.

Howard G. Hendricks

#27. People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Will Rogers

#28. There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Piers Morgan

#29. Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Louise Brooks

#30. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty

Alex Flinn

#32. I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Doug Stanhope

#33. Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

Cory Doctorow

#34. I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

Tullian Tchividjian

#35. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.

Mark Bouris

#38. Experts tell us that the global economy will worsen while household appliances will get smarter. By the time your child is twenty-one years old and ready to enter the workforce, all of her job interviews will be conducted by Roombas.

Rick Chillot

#39. In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

Stephen Curry

#40. What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Steve Jobs

#41. People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.

Grant McCracken

#42. 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

#43. Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full- blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.

Robert Duchnik

#44. For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Gordon Korman

#45. People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

Harry Bernstein

#46. Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz."
"Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate."
"If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper.

Shayla Black

#47. Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I'm doing so well with it, I know I'm actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

A.D. Aliwat

#48. If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Nolan Bushnell

#49. President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous ...

Jonathan Chait

#50. I've always found that the better the book I'm reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Francine Prose

#51. 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

#52. Every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are. The fact that it remains a problem means it is too damned hard to be cracked in full.

Steven D. Levitt

#53. There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

Danica McKellar

#54. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

John M. Gottman

#55. I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU

Ice-T

#56. People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

Warren Buffett

#57. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Jake M. Johnson

#58. It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Robert Redford

#59. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

St. Vincent

#61. You're the fool," Jesper snarled. "He's smarter than most of us put together, and he deserves a better father than you.

Leigh Bardugo

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

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

Jeet Banerjee

#64. Doing better is creativity,
doing faster is creativity,
doing smarter is creativity,
doing right is creativity.
doing Exclusive is creating identity.

Mohit Manke

#65. As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#66. You can't bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier - and smarter

David Sobel

#67. Work smarter, not harder

Carl Barks

#68. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Steven Pressfield

#69. We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

Anders Sandberg

#70. Buy!" "SELL!" "Trade!" "BARTER!" "YOU'RE MUCH BIGGER, BUT WE ARE SMARTER!

John Green

#71. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Liane Moriarty

#72. My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Robert Jordan

#73. Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

Matt Labash

#74. I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

Hillary Clinton

#75. 12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#76. There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

Gerry Harvey

#77. Even my beloved Peng Choon, wonderful husband that he was, liked to think of himself as the smarter of us two, which for the sake of peace I allowed.

Selina Siak Chin Yoke

#78. It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Stephen Hawking

#79. They say curiosity killed the cat but I am unconcerned. I am smarter, though slightly less evil, than any cat.

Eliza Crewe

#80. Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.

C.J. Langenhoven

#81. Denser cities are smarter and more productive

Richard Florida

#82. I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year's Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.

Joyce Banda

#83. I just have to be smarter than my own mind.

Gregory Galloway

#84. I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.

David Twohy

#85. I cleared my throat, searching for my voice. "There's a good chance you might be smarter than me."

That almost made her smile. "Nah, I just like being around you while you're still breathing.

Lisa Kessler

#86. My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

Tony La Russa

#87. I don't know what idiot thought it was smarter to let a woman enter a room before him. How does he know if it is safe for her to enter if he does not check it out himself? It's actually a much more caring act to go before her, therefore ensuring that nothing will harm her,

Quinn Loftis

#88. We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Michael Bloomberg

#89. Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

David Zinczenko

#90. I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Ethan Hawke

#91. For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

Imelda Staunton

#92. Rejection's just something that you need to get used to and you need to accept it and you need to know there's always going to be someone that's smarter, prettier, younger, or knows the right person over you.

April Rose

#93. I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

Christopher Meloni

#94. We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

Bootsy Collins

#95. They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Amy Hempel

#96. Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white ... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

Dav Pilkey

#97. The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Keri Hulme

#98. I think kids are smarter than you think.

Steve Wiebe

#99. When faced with a challenge, get smarter.

Ed Catmull

#100. It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

Kevin Mitnick