David Twohy Quotes

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.