#smart

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. ↗

— Seth Godin

#being #fear #mark #overcoming #person

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dark-humor #dexter #smart #witty #humor

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented. ↗

— Jon Heder

#i #kate #liked #pretty #she

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem. ↗

— Anne Holm

#i-am-david #life #smart #stupidity #violence

But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David. ↗

— Anne Holm

#i-am-david #life #politeness #smart #wisdom

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#country #front #hard #i #important

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#feminine #looks #off #people #pretty

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart. ↗

— Ralph Lauren

#costumes #fashion #i #i think #like

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. ↗

— Rasmus Lerdorf

#file #playing #smart #tar #tricks