{"quotes":[{"text":"Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly 'good' thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["attention","beauty","bill-gates","brains","character","culture","gegeara","good","good-look","good-looking","good-looks","heart","impact","knowledge","olaotan-fawehinmi","oniegegara","right-partner","skill","smart-people","succeed","success","teacher","value"],"id":32854,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to theirintellectual level.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["believe","intellect","intellectual","intellectual-level","inverse","inversely","inversely-proportional","most","ok","ok-to-be-wrong","people","proportional","right","smart","smart-people","smartest","think","wrong"],"id":61868,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"Hey, Geekoid!' yelled Duncan Dougal, 'Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?","author":"Bruce Coville","tags":["dumb-people","education","funny","humor","humour","learning","people-who-don-t-read","readers","reading","smart-people","stupid-people","television","tv"],"id":86506,"author_id":"Bruce+Coville"},{"text":"Now what?” he finally asked.Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. “Nowwhat, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?”“Affirmative.”Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what?","author":"Christie Ridgway","tags":["crush","cute","smart-people"],"id":184035,"author_id":"Christie+Ridgway"},{"text":"If you play smart, you may achieve your target without using up all your resources.","author":"Abhishek Ratna","tags":["resources","smart","smart-people","success","success-coaching","success-in-business","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement","success-strategies","successful","successful-living","successful-people"],"id":204889,"author_id":"Abhishek+Ratna"},{"text":"In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.","author":"Erol Ozan","tags":["happiness","happy","intelligence","pursuit-of-happiness","smart-people"],"id":206002,"author_id":"Erol+Ozan"},{"text":"Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.","author":"Charlie Huston","tags":["greed","money","rich","smart","smart-people"],"id":259363,"author_id":"Charlie+Huston"},{"text":"Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["intelligence","intelligent","problems","smart","smart-people","solve"],"id":310408,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.","author":"Hannah Moskowitz","tags":["college","smart-people","twisted-darwinism"],"id":336624,"author_id":"Hannah+Moskowitz"},{"text":"They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb.","author":"Piyush Negi","tags":["onepercent","powerful","rich","smart","smart-people","success"],"id":363784,"author_id":"Piyush+Negi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}