I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.
I can't say there's a job that I hated. But you know what happens, is sometimes you say, "I'm smarter than my boss. " Sometimes you may feel that somebody's tellin' you what to do and bossin' you around, and you're like, "I'm a hundred times smarter than you," and even if I'm not, I would feel that way anyway.
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
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.
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
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.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.
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Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".