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.
I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.
Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.
All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.
it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.
It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.
How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.
That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.
Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.
Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter - it's just safer.
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. . . . It's the way friends make love to one another.
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.
But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.