The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart businesswoman.
A smart model is a good model.
I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
Both Republicans and Democrats can agree that more choices and lower prices in transportation would benefit consumers. Democrats would consider it 'smart government' and Republicans 'limited government.'
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.
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.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
Most smart companies should make themselves media companies. That means they put out their own information.
I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.
I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.
'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.
In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
Do people think women from Bollywood aren't smart?
