Smart Quotes
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone -
My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'
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Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
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The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
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We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.
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The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.
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Everybody can be smart.
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Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.
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All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
Biz Stone -
I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.
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I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
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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.
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Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.
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I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
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Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.
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I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.
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Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.
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I have little brothers and sisters, and they annoy me a lot, but I love them so much because they're so smart and witty.
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Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of group-think than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter, the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
