If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

It is very easy to create problems , rather than creating solutions, because you don't have to think, and you don't have to be a genius or smart either. So, don't tell yourself that you are clever, when you are creating problems for others.

Fishermen don't play to fold. They will always play the bluff no matter how hard things get. We throw the dice no matter how broke or how leveraged we may be. Like any true gambler, we know the dice will eventually get hot again if we throw them hard enough. It's just a matter of surviving long enough to throw them enough times to find a winning streak

But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of precipitation.

By nature of routine, our mind allows us to leverage patterns; repetition permits us to perform remedial tasks without much active thought or input.

One of the most substantial tools that can be leveraged is the power of perspective.

"Yesterday I was clever

The failure mode of clever is "asshole.

When did you get so clever?

Cleverness is not wisdom.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.