“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Shrewdness in Public Life all over the World is always honored, while honesty in Public Men is generally attributed to Dumbness and is seldom rewarded.”
Will Rogers
“We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.”
Dan Quayle
“By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.”
John Dewey
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“He sought the neighborhoods out rather than waiting for them. He was very shrewd.”
John Moran
“Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.”
Peter Hunt
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