A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
American - Novelist
Born: April 8, 1955

What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

Jill Scott

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Ndamukong Suh

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Lorne Michaels

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Jack Welch

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

Robert S. Kaplan

Listen real hard to the smartest guy in the room before you go trying to prove how smart you are.

Lee Clow

My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.

Alexis Ohanian

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

John C. Maxwell

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

Michael Dell

How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?

Elizabeth Marvel

If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites and the conservative intellectuals. There's always an argument among our people over who's the smartest person in the room and they're always trying to outsmart each other with the fanciest smartest most obscure argument. The fact is these arguments are taking place within the conservative movement I think quite a lot.

Rush Limbaugh

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Marissa Mayer

You may not be the best person in the room or the smartest or most experienced, but you can still control how hard you work on a project, and that's a quality that can really come through.

Kasie Hunt

My mom is a very independent person, and she's the funniest, smartest person in the room, all the time.

Linda Cardellini

That moment in 'Broadcast News' where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it's awful - I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn't help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.

Zoe Kazan

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

Julian Schnabel

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