In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.
I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.
Don't make anybody Use you,be smart , else Dont curse them when they chew u out and throw you,they were smart not you
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish.
We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
If your idea is big enough and crazy enough, all you have to do is survive. If you survive you will succeed.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
