Will Smith Quotes

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

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• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Look
  • Images
  • Material

• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Acting
  • Show

• One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Doing
  • Students
  • Colleagues

• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Drama
  • Student
  • Suits

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Like
  • Show
  • Last

• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Opportunity

• There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Up
  • Care
  • Inspired

• He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Said
  • Start

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Hope
  • Purpose
  • Everything

• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • You
  • Control
  • Yourself

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Daughter
  • Look
  • Same

• There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections.

  

  Daniel Dennett

• Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.

  

  Adam Ferguson

• With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Relationship

• Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Congress
  • Destruction
  • Churches

• I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

  

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
  • Economics
  • Conclusion
  • Analyze

• Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

  

  Constance Rourke
  • People
  • Art
  • Existence

• I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

  

  Will Smith