Quotes about clever
clever men brain
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. Arthur Conan Doyle
clever turns adaptable
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
clever writing thinking
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. Anton Chekhov
clever two people
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others. Baltasar Gracian
clever oxford persons
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. Arundhati Roy
clever men boston
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. Anthony Trollope
clever mean should-have
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
clever men often-is
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
cleverness simply
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. Leon Kass
clever stupid focus
The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash. David Allen
clever ensure lucky maintain needed people true written
There are only two things needed to maintain celebrity: Being clever enough to ensure that nothing true is ever written about you, and being lucky enough to only have the right people write it.
clever creating design foresight level number rigorous scenario scenarios sf shift technology
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions. Karl Schroeder
clever lying people
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence. Alexis de Tocqueville
clever cycling done
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world Susan B. Anthony
clever white house
The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion. Bob Dole
clever reading talking
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life. Billy Collins
clever average people
Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service. Brian Tracy
clever writing debugging
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Brian Kernighan
clever condolences joy
We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world. Brian Henson
clever thinking messages
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman? Brendan Behan
clever heart brain
In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart. Jane Goodall
clever stewardship planets
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
clever heart empathy
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
clever men imagination
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. Blaise Pascal
clever years play
In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way. Billie Piper
clever delivering fed force hardly president resonance single special string syntax tours whose
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. Tina Brown
clever crazy causes
I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to. Craig Ferguson
clever lust skins
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin. Elizabeth Hurley
clever favors evolution
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich
clever fall feet praise
O my mind, praise the Creator. Give up all your clever tricks, and fall at the Feet of the Guru.
cleverness exactly knows smart
She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.
clever men fake
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake. Brandon Sanderson
clever world fists
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)