Frederick W. Smith Quotes

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

Frederick W. Smith

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• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

  

  Lactantius
  • True
  • Know
  • Wisdom

• I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Ignorance
  • New
  • Jazz

• The Republicans are coming - make nice.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Nice
  • Coming
  • Republicans

• I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.

  

  Fleur East
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real

• The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life
  • Art
  • Practice

• I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

  

  John Fleming
  • Leadership

• Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Work
  • Help

• Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • True
  • Anxiety
  • Realistic

• Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

  

  Frederick W. Smith