Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of ChesterfieldRead
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
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