When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind ope….
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of….
I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me..
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wi….
We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going i….
I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy..
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with….
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation..
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe ….
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart..
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts….
It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are..
It's always better to be wise than to be smart..
Better stupid and safe that smart and dead..
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard an….
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an ….
I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special..
I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick..
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.
I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now….
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on ….