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#cleverness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cleverness




Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.


William Bernbach


#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.


Donna Mills


#because #bugging #business #business sense #character

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.


Stendhal


#fear #few #founded #many #religions

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.


Harriet Beecher Stowe


#folly #nothing #obstinacy #reason

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.


A.A. Milne


#cleverness #humor #piglet #understanding #winnie-the-pooh

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.


Tom Brown, Jr.


#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

[On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#cleverness #deception #honesty #marriage #men

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.


Aleister Crowley


#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.


Louis C. K.


#comedy #direction #gone #into #ironic

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.


Bertrand Russell


#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding






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