When you get to that level, it’s not a matter of talent anymore – because all the players are so talented – it’s about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. – Hakeem Olajuwon
Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids – not because it’s genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don’t get. – George Kaiser
Children tease each other because you’re short or you’re tall or you’re a redhead or because you’re ugly or because you’re smart or because you’re dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. – Heather Wilson
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. – Hunter S. Thompson
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. – Henry Rollins
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. – Guy Kawasaki
Maybe the perceived fact that smart, rich parents tended to have smart, rich kids was largely due to the fact that they also tended to have stay-at-home moms or nannies who read to their kids, held them, put mobiles over their cribs, playing those annoying ditties, and sent them off for SAT training at six months. – George Kaiser
Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. – Hunter S. Thompson
‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in. – Hillary Clinton
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience’s attention without extraordinary physical equipment. – Judy Holliday
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me. – J. Cole
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that’s compounded by a factor of trillions. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
In America right now, we use words like ‘smart’ to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it’s very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. – Jonathan Safran Foer
The smart phone isn’t a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us. – John Battelle
To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I’ve been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there’s usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success. – Jon Favreau
Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with ‘The New 52.’ – James Wan
I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you. – Jennifer Lopez
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. – Janet Napolitano
Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error. – Isabel Allende
You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly. – James Marsden
Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it. – Jack Prelutsky
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal. – Julia Roberts
As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company. – Jay Samit
Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. – Jonathan Safran Foer
If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it. – Jesse Ventura
