Quotes of: Smart-people Keyword

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Louise Brooks

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Virginia Postrel

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Guy Kawasaki

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

James Surowiecki

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Dolph Lundgren

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Sean Penn

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

The Sportswriter

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

Rebel Wilson

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Steve Carell

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

Harvey Mackay

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

Jesse Ventura

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Ashley Tisdale

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Woody Hayes

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong

I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

Tom Rath

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how ...

Mike White

Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources on...

Stephanie March

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of...

Brad Paisley

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate peo...

Kid Rock