Words matter. These are the best Being Smart Quotes from famous people such as Lauren Myracle, Brande Roderick, Danica McKellar, Sarah Shahi, Sara Pascoe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Give your kid some credit for being smart – just because they read about something doesn’t mean they will do it.
You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.
My message is: You don’t have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
I know it sounds weird, but my definition of ‘sexy’ has changed as I’ve gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.
For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.
I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
A degree is an asset, but it doesn’t mean anything by itself. It’s just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
I was determined to make a movie – about families and a love story – that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.
Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don’t exclude myself from that. It’s about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.
Being a Southern person and a blonde, it’s not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher’s pet.
I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary.
I don’t think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C’s and D’s. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Now I have normal-person fears – fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and brave and prepared was more important than being cute or cheerful or knowing the right thing to say. And that’s what science fiction and fantasy gave me.
It’s basketball, man. It’s being smart, using your size as an advantage. I can get into people. I can get into your stomach, so you can’t back me down. I can stay in front of you, I can move my feet, I can be aggressive. People don’t understand that it can be a disadvantage being tall, too.
Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
