Quotes About Smart

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.

The thing that's the most lovely to me, looking back at my time on 'Gilmore Girls', was how fortunate I was to be a young actor and to be on a show that made it really cool for girls to be smart.

With the years I've had with U.S.A. Basketball, my loyalty, their loyalty to me with always asking me to come back, that's incredible.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

Technology does not make us smarter. People do not make technology smart. It is the combination of the two, the person plus the artifact, that is smart. Together, with our tools, we are a powerful combination. On the other hand, if we are suddenly without these external devices, then we don't do very well. In many ways, we do become less smart.

Technology does not make us smarter. People do not make technology smart. It is the combination of the two, the person plus the artifact, that is smart. Together, with our tools, we are a powerful combination.

Unless it is your ambition to become a nightclub performer and amaze people with great skills of memory, here is a simpler way to dramatically enhance both memory and accuracy: write things down. Writing is a powerful technology: why not use it? Use a pad of paper, or the back of your hand. Write it or type it. Use a phone or a computer. Dictate it. This is what technology is for. The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

I don't want to stop legal immigration to this country. In fact, I would like to reform and increase immigration in some important ways. Our current immigration laws are upside down—they make it tough on the people we need to have here, and easy for the people we don't want here. This country is a magnet for many of the smartest, hardest-working people born in other countries, yet we make it difficult for these bright people who follow the laws to settle here.

The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.

What I mean is, if we aren't learning, we are forgetting, if we aren't getting smart, we are becoming dull. The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it's true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn't a lot of competition.

I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances, he said. It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

He's a slick, riverboat gambler type of dude. Han Solo is a rather crude, rough and tumble kind of guy; this guy will be a very slicked down, elegant, James Bond–type. He's much more of a con man, which puts him more in the Mr. Spock style of thinking, being smart, cool, and taking tremendous chances. An emotional Spock, someone who uses his wits rather than his brawn.

I realized that success in most things depends on finding people stupid enough to volunteer to try doing them but smart enough to have a chance of succeeding.

Who is coming up with this plan? Smart Kira or Crazy Kira?" She grinned. "Smart Kira, though according to my mother in the last few years there may be a fine line dividing her from Crazy Kira.

These people without Hitler are not abnormal, not pervert[s], not geniuses," Kelley said. "They were like any aggressive, smart, ambitious, ruthless businessman, and their business happened in the setting up of a world government.

You've been hurt by every person you ever cared for, except Abby. You raised yourself, and in doing so became self-reliant and independent. You don't need the firm. You can leave it. You're hardened and calloused beyond your years. And you're smart enough to pull it off, Mitch. You won't get caught. That's why we picked you.

Damned right I am. He's too smart to commit a murder and leave it alone. For twenty years I've operated under the assumption that he's back there, watching, still covering his tracks.

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Embrace your strengths, but admit your weaknesses. Be smart enough to realize that, while you're good at some things, you're not perfect. Thinking like this will keep you grounded. Never have the attitude that you know everything there is to know.

You make me laugh. You make me smile. You're smart. You're different. You're sometimes awkward and a little crazy, but that's why I love you and can never forget about you.