Smart Quotes

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.