Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.
The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.
One of the smartest things you can do on ‘Chopped’ is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I’m feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It’s nothing fancy – just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.
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.
First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it’s called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
I knew that I wasn’t the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.
At a certain career level, it’s no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.
The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you’ll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.
Lily’s really together – she’s a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I’m there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.
Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.
It’s one thing for a father to say, ‘Oh, my son is great.’ But to have others say it – that’s the true reward. Robbie’s one of the smartest people I know. He’s made such fantastic movies.
I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that’s the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
If you’re the smartest person you know, it’s time to know some new people.
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.
I try to surround myself with people smarter than me – if I’m the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
You may not be the best person in the room or the smartest or most experienced, but you can still control how hard you work on a project, and that’s a quality that can really come through.
What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.
Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I’ve ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.
It doesn’t matter if you’re the smartest person in the room: If you’re not someone who people want to be around, you won’t get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers – I make sure my time is tithed.
My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn’t obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.
I don’t take myself too seriously. I never think I’m the smartest person in the room.
I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.
It drove me as a kid. I couldn’t bear the idea that I wasn’t the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.
Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.
