We’ve collected the best Smarter Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: A. Whitney Brown, Bob Schieffer, Nicole Maines, Ray Nagin, Scott Hamilton. Use them as an inspiration.
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Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
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There are people a lot smarter, a lot more talented than I am, people who’ve accomplished things I can only imagine. Often, they started from the most humble of circumstances. That’s my message: freedom and opportunity. That’s the American Dream.
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Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don’t know very much in economics.
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My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
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U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.
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If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.
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We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
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We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we’ll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.
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The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in his or her field. Some of Harvard’s professors are even famous.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.
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I’m not a person who regrets – it doesn’t make me smarter to regret something.
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America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cronyism, not more of the same deception, corruption, and business. Washington, D.C., needs to be shaken up.
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There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today’s soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they’ve been brought up in the computer and information age.
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I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I’m obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.
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We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.
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Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
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Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter – don’t just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
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I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I’m not.
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I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.
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Business is just like sports: if you’re the best in the group that you run in, you’re never going to get any better. It’s the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.
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This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
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I rarely see one of the ‘summer blockbuster‘ movies. I’d like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
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ICT careers are becoming more complex as a result of the digital revolution, where smarter connections are being made between people, processes, data, and things.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
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It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his pose as the tough billionaire, he will be flattered by the Russian media, scorned by those who matter in Russia, and then easily crushed by men far richer and smarter than he.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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If you can’t hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.
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It’s actually smarter to make a dumb film.
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You don’t get smarter by not learning stuff.
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I’m a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.
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Failing doesn’t have to mean not succeeding. It can be, ‘Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.’
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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush – so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
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The Health Commissioner has given us good advice. It’s smarter to keep the COVID patients separate. You don’t want a person who goes into a hospital with one situation developing COVID because they happened to be exposed.
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The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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The thing that’s changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn’t done, but in the past, you can’t have it back.
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There’s smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.
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People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
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Your body is smarter than you are, so you always have to stay one step ahead.
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We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
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The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.
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Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.
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The change that I never fall into is the, ‘I’m-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.’ The change that I’m hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter – where I put myself in situations that don’t have a huge potential for disaster.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
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Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don’t exclude myself from that. It’s about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.
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Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.
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I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
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I like to think I’m a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
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There’s no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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We’re smarter and more innovative when we’re diverse.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug ‘Vanity Fair.’ You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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We believe our diversity makes us stronger, smarter, and more innovative, helping us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.
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My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, ‘justice’ is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went.
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I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.
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Hardworking, passionate teachers know their students’ needs better than anyone else in the school environment. If we can tap into their needs, we can unleash smarter solutions and empower those people on the front lines.
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By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
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There is almost a 60-year age difference between Miley Cyrus and Jane Fonda, and one day I trained them both. I would say I trained Jane in her 70s even harder than I did Miley, who’s a teenager. I think, as you become older, it’s not about working harder: it’s about working smarter.
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I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I’m smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
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My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I’m no smarter than anyone else, but I’ve been taught by some wonderful people.
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This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It’s easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
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Well, I’ve been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it’s completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that’s better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
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Being president isn’t a solo position. You surround yourself with highly qualified people that are smarter about issues than you are. But that’s not enough. You then have to listen to them.
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We hire people who are smarter than us.
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But I believe the older I get, I’m wiser and I train smarter.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you’re doing, the more that’ s an important thing.
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All I care about is getting smarter and better.
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I’m just another guy who thinks he’s smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that’s just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
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If there’s any secret to my success, it’s that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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In rock n’ roll, we don’t sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you’ve just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that’s what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.
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I don’t think I’m any smarter than any of my developers.
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Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
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I am not smarter than anyone else.
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Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
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All that Tim Kaine has is to try to convince people that conservatives are racist – and you know what, people are smarter than that.
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I’ve become smarter, more disciplined and more hungry.
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I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
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I never played a woman who was smarter than me.
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As a street hustler, you’ve got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.
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I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.
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Nine times out of 10 the smarter or mentally focused fighter comes out on top.
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It’s hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don’t think it’s necessarily broader or smarter.
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The longer you live, the smarter you get because you’ve been around. You’ve seen things. You’ve gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.
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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama‘s health care bill.
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Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left – least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it made me a better businessman. I had to learn the music business. It just made me a better person as far as the way I live.
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I think it’s evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you’re interested in.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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I don’t have to be smarter than anybody else. I’ve just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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If you’re smarter than me, you shouldn’t be reading my books.
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it’s a dumb word, but mental processing power – I’ve watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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We don’t need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.
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I like making players better and smarter.
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I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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I think that’s one of the things I’ve learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.
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Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules. In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there’s going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge.
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As far as aging on screen is concerned, I am sure the TV audience don’t go by stereotypes – they have evolved and become smarter over the years.
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The thing with ‘The West Wing’ is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality – these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
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Connected vehicle technologies are revolutionizing and democratizing transportation for safer, smarter, more responsible, and more accessible driving.
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All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it… which is the smarter way to do it.
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I believe if we can crowdsource educational solutions to teachers on the front lines, who often know their kids better than anyone, we will unearth and generate better-targeted, smarter ideas.
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I’m a little smarter than most.
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No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.
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Every day, I get a little smarter.
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I don’t believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs.
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Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.
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I’ve got to work harder and smarter to get to the place where I truly belong.
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When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, ‘I’ve got to know it. I’ve got to give direction to others. I’m in this job because I’m better and smarter.’ I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
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I know I’m not smarter than a 10-year-old.
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The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!
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Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.
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I think Finn Balor is more about confidence, a smarter version of Prince Devitt. Otherwise, they have the same core values, same techniques, and the same heart.
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I don’t want any of my sisters to be like Tomi Lahren. You all are smarter, sharper, more articulate, brilliant, so why would I want y’all to be like her?
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
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I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
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In Joe Yorio you find a guy who’s smarter at business than I am. I’m an entrepreneur and idea guy; he’s a professional businessman.
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I get smarter when I read seeing big words.
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Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock’s life, he is smarter than he was the day before.
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I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.
