For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to – both the ones who made it and didn’t. He had a great interest in policy.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you’ve kind of figured it out.
I think it’s an important part of the visual effects supervisor’s job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I’m not proprietary about, ‘I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.’ No, let’s do the smartest thing for the movie.
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
Lie to Me’ is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they’re not going to get from any other show.
I feel like Soulja Boy was one of the smartest when it came to connecting with your fans and taking that to another level. That’s how you get the real love. Someone will love you, but if they feel like they know you or they can relate to you, it’s a real genuine, solid love, even when you’re down.
I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn’t the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it’s mandatory to get your GED if you don’t have a high school diploma.
You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you’re in on the day of the race. I’ve always felt these really big races aren’t necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They’re won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
I’m an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn’t love doing.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.
JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he’s a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He’s funny – he’s got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.
It was cool to play an African princess who’s the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.
I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.
If I’m the smartest guy in the room, I’m in the wrong room.
Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.
Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.
Without a dog, you’ll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
My closest adviser is my wife. It’s nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.
Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There’s massive structural advantages to the player who’s smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers – the party that understands best the behavior of riders.
Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
I said I was ‘The Greatest,’ I never said I was the smartest!
I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.
If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.
You look at the Rolling Stones. It had the lips, the logo and the style. You look at Jay-Z, who I think is probably the smartest brand marketer I’ve ever met. These people understand the core of what their brand is and what their fans want.
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.
Today’s smartest advertising style is tomorrow’s corn.
Investing in girls and women is the smartest thing we can do, and will help us to improve opportunities for all people. With equal access to education, health care, employment, and representation in political and economic decision-making, girls and women are force to be reckoned with.
Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
They’re the smartest, most cunning, slick, coolest group of people on the planet. Generation Z, I love y’all.
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn’t necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.
Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There’s massive structural advantages to the player who’s smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers – the party that understands best the behavior of riders.
One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I’m going through. I don’t know that I’ve been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren’t being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don’t take care of your family when you’re able to.
I give so much credit to the ‘Up’ team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.
That moment in ‘Broadcast News’ where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it’s awful – I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn’t help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
A lot of people just write off the projects that I do as stupid, but they obviously aren’t, the ideas aren’t the smartest but I think there definitely is a lot of thought behind it.
I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, ‘You’re gorgeous.’ And I was like, ‘What?’
I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that’s deeply satisfying.
I feel that ‘Person of Interest’ is the same quality as ‘Brotherhood.’ I think it’s one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.
If I’m the smartest guy in the room, I’m in the wrong room.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you’ve kind of figured it out.
How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?
I’m never the smartest guy in the room. I’m willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.
The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren’t being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don’t take care of your family when you’re able to.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I’ve ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It’s not a right.
