Top 100 You Are Smart Quotes
#1. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#2. I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'
Steve Burns
#3. I've never met anyone as quietly brave and strong as you. I've never met a woman so unassuming, so kind, and so selfless. You are a complex lady." His mouth curled up at the corners. "And you are smart, and passionate, and funny, and exciting, and you blow me fucking away.
Samantha Young
#4. If you are smart be simple. If you are powerful be generous. If you are rich be humble. If you want to be smart be simple. If you want to be powerful be generous. If you want to be rich be humble.
Enock Maregesi
#5. What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.
Ato Essandoh
#6. If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.
Jim Rogers
#7. Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.
Roseanne Barr
#8. Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
Brian Celio
#9. You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
Jimmy Buffett
#10. When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
Kathryn Stockett
#11. It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant
Don Herold
#12. If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.
Frederick Lenz
#13. The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do suffer from depression, mental illness, and the struggles that accompany it. You are brave. You are strong. You are smart. You are beautiful. You are worth it.
Kathryn Perez
#14. It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
Howard Gardner
#15. When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
Amy Poehler
#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. Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.
Charles McPhee
#18. You should do what makes you happy. You are smart. You are beautiful. You can do anything. You don't belong here. You belong out there,
A Meredith Walters
#19. Why do I want you? Because you are smart. Because you are beautiful. Because you make me laugh. Because you are sensual and passionate and the way you give me your body drives me absolutely fucking wild, and now I am rock-hard again for you. There. Satisfied?
Lauren Blakely
#20. It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
Dylan Smith
#21. I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.
Betsy Byars
#22. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#23. Just because you may be a Genious, does not mean you are Smart.
Mark W. Boyer
#24. SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.
Gregory Maguire
#25. New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.
Patricia Briggs
#26. 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
#27. Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.
Kim Cattrall
#28. 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
#29. You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman
#30. So you'll have to just trust me when I say that you are worthy, important, and necessary. And smart. You may ask how I know and I'll tell you how. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. Other,
Jenny Lawson
#31. As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.
John Corey Whaley
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
John Lasseter
#36. I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.
Rashida Jones
#37. Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
Bruce Paltrow
#38. You are in the hands of experts who have researched and perfected a system of corporate ladder climbing that, until recently, no one has dared consider feasible.
Martin Fossum
#39. 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
#40. When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.
Robert A. Heinlein
#41. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing though. You always thing you want to be noticed...until you are.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Chet Baker
#43. 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
#45. Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.
Ann Coulter
#46. You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that's why I'm able to beat them.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#47. You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.
Michael Hyatt
#48. Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
Harmon Killebrew
#49. If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
Ken Blanchard
#50. I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.
Howard Rheingold
#51. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Chris Rock
#52. Let's face it - there are a million guys who fulfill the basics: He makes you laugh, earns a good living, smart, blah, blah, blah, but, for me, it's the chemistry that matters.
Jen Schefft
#53. At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'
Peter David
#54. You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.
Solange Nicole
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.
James Randi
#58. There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.
Meg Ryan
#59. Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#60. You ain't too smart, are ya boy? I'm Javier "Bones" Jones. I'm the baddest man there is in this town or any town through The Mississippi. You thinking you're gonna waltz up on me and kill me? Ha! I'll do for you like I did for my late dog and put you out of your misery.
Justin Bienvenue
#61. 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
#62. Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Terence McKenna
#63. Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."
"Nonsense. I'm fucking brilliant. Or haven't you heard?
J. Kenner
#64. You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
Susan Orlean
#65. 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
#66. The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.
Brene Brown
#67. Oh... oh... take that... shit...
You are a guy smashes heads... you aren't a smart guy, are ya!?
Deyth Banger
#68. Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.
Ricky Gervais
#69. Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?
Allan Dare Pearce
#70. The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#71. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.
Michael Lewis
#72. A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside ... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?
Jodi Picoult
#73. I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.
James Gandolfini
#74. I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
David Tennant
#75. I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
Cameron Diaz
#76. Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.
David Sedaris
#77. You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
Elizabeth Smart
#78. Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.
Elizabeth Moon
#79. You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
Tamora Pierce
#80. It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn't make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard Feynman
#81. No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
Daniel Dennett
#82. You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
Donald Trump
#83. 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.
Matt Groening
#84. There is nobody out there that will ever be what you are to me. Nobody will ever be pretty enough, smart enough, funny enough, or as big of a pain in my ass as you are. You're the only one I want. You're the only one I've ever wanted.
Claire Contreras
#85. People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.
Jon Runyan
#86. 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
#87. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.
Carla Harris
#88. Are you always a smart ass?" Ryder asked with a lifted brow at her sardonic smile. "Nope, sometimes I'm asleep," she offered with a lazy shrug.
Amelia Hutchins
#89. 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
#90. It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#91. There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
Ben Carson
#92. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#93. I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.
Matthew Fox
#94. I realize no matter how smart you are, you'll end up trusting people and get hurt. This world is full of pretenders and you'll never know.
Manasa Rao
#95. People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.
Chris Matthews
#96. Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.
James Frey
#97. We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.
John William McCormack
#98. But look at it this way," Stevie Rae broke in. "Aphrodite figured it out. So are you sayin' she's smarter than you?"
Kramisha's eyes narrowed."I got a whole world of smart than that rich white girl don't know nothin' about."
"Well than cowboy up.
P.C. Cast
#99. I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
Pierre Trudeau
#100. It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
Daniel H. Wilson
