Smart Quotes

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

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 operated a little differently.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

It's all about training smart.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.