If you are smart, you'll learn to pay attention.**

Do stuff' be clenched, curious.
Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
Pay attention.
It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality.
It connects you with others.
It makes you eager. Stay eager

You are smart when you understand that ....

Loneliness is the human condition.

Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.
Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.
If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

What's smart according to Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident.
It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny

Charles Bukowski

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

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