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There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.