Hannibal Quotes

Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

It's a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

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

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.