Think Smart Not Hard Quotes

#1. Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

Mariano Rivera

#2. Well I'll be honest ... sometimes it's really hard-"
"I know." I smirked, feeling saucy. "I can tell. I'm pretty much straddling you right now."
"Really hard to stop, smart-ass," Brendan emphasized, giving me a playful squeeze before cocking an eyebrow at me.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#3. I wasn't gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

Ned Vizzini

#4. Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

Kevin Leveille

#5. I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard.
Don't call me lucky.
Call me a badas.

Shonda Rhimes

#6. This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist.

Emily Prager

#7. Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

Christopher Smart

#8. It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.

Tom Shales

#9. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

Shane Snow

#10. Work hard and work smart, be passionate about your work, keep learning, and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.

Janaki Krishnan

#11. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Mark Zuckerberg

#12. My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

Marco Rubio

#13. You work hard because you're smart and you know you can do it, don't let some idiot bully you into being less than you are.

Justin Robinson

#14. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#15. Dr. Patel nodded. "You are a very smart man, John. I am curious to know why you never went to college?" John shrugged. "I thought I would. But I fell in love and got married." He started to say more, but his throat caught. Swallowing hard, he continued with difficulty. "Plans change.

Forrest Carr

#16. Work hard AND smart.

Mike Rowe

#17. It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

Betty Dodson

#18. "You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ... "

Ruth Park

#19. We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Stephen King

#20. Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

Nando Parrado

#21. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.

Lee Child

#22. Working hard, working smart

Anonymous

#23. Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

Marsha Blackburn

#24. And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

Terry Matthews

#25. Work smart, not hard

Monica Madison

#26. I think swimming's hard because I can't float.

Erinn Smart

#27. God does not expect us to work hard, he expects us to work smart.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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

Anders Sandberg

#29. When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

Kate Winslet

#30. A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

Taeyang

#31. You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

Herb Brooks

#32. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

Oliver DeMille