You Are Not Smart Quotes

#1. No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart.

Lois Greiman

#3. It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds.

Richie Norton

#4. You realize we are two smart women who are not acting very smart right now,' she said.
'Huh?'
'We know better than to try to figure out what a man is up to. This'll get worked out when it's suppose to.

Alice Clayton

#5. Let things bother you. The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#6. We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.

Deborah King

#7. When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#8. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

Douglas Hofstadter

#9. It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.

Richard P. Feynman

#10. I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

Gail Sheehy

#11. If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

Daniel Goleman

#12. One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

John Green

#13. Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

Dean Koontz

#14. If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.

Manoj Bhargava

#15. Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!

Abhishek Ratna

#17. For those who say you're thinking too big ... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that? ... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.

Eric Schmidt

#18. Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

Chris Klein

#19. If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.

Rifhi Siddiq

#20. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

Richard P. Feynman

#21. Why are you still wearing ... ?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?"
David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly ... Tally might eat you.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.

Julie Hebert

#23. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian Kernighan

#24. Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

Tina Fey

#25. Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#26. Just because you may be a Genious, does not mean you are Smart.

Mark W. Boyer

#27. It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?

Jim Butcher

#28. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Julia Roberts

#29. There's always going to be someone out there ... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

Jimmy Fallon

#30. I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.

Martina Hingis

#31. Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision.

Mike Jellick

#32. Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

Robert H. Frank

#33. I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

Ronald D. Moore

#34. A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Kevin Kelly

#35. You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#36. You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Katie Nolan

#37. Maybe you yhink you're not perfect,not pretty enough,or smart enough,but for some guy,you're pefect just the way you are.that's your perfect man.

Yuchita Erayani

#38. If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Ken Blanchard

#40. 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

#41. I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Cameron Diaz

#42. Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you not as the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. And He loves you because you are His child.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#43. You are drawn to dangerous things, princess," Neferre said with a flat laugh. "You are not very smart."
Neferre was surprised when Athica laughed as well. "No. Perhaps I am not," the princess said, looking at Neferre fondly.

Ash Gray

#44. What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

Steven Johnson

#45. Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.

Alex Linder

#46. Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computers that are smart enough to form sentences. Not when they're in control of the locks, and especially when they have the capacity to boil you in bleach.
"Absolutely," said the shower.

Mira Grant

#47. It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.

Jonathan Franzen

#48. I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

Kelly Brook

#49. If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

Malcolm Gladwell

#50. Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Mitchell Baker

#51. How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.

Regina Brett

#52. Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.

Farrah Gray

#53. Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

Arlo Guthrie

#54. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.

Frank Sennett

#55. You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Lawrence Kasdan

#56. You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

Michael Hyatt

#57. Practice to look stupid, practice to look like you are not good enough or smart enough where you couldn't do things right and get over it anyway. The truth of the matter is we are all going to feel that way.

John Assaraf

#58. It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

Howard Gardner

#59. I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.

Amanda Ripley

#60. The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.

James Patrick Kelly

#61. not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination.

Bobby Adair