Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Know
  • Insult
  • Martial Arts

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Live
  • Know
  • Acting

• I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Play
  • Transgender

• Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Respect
  • Leadership

• I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Regrets
  • None
  • No Regrets

• I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Me
  • Painting
  • Doing

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Year
  • Month
  • Looking Forward

• I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Learning

• Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Long
  • Coach

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Happy
  • Day

• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Forever

• And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Know
  • Best
  • Dance

• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Need
  • Consumption

• Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.

  

  Erich Hartmann
  • Enemy
  • Speed
  • Hits

• My mom was probably the biggest influence. She cooked dinner every night. We sat around the table every night. It was a very traditional family.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Mom
  • Influence
  • Traditional family

• Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Simplicity

• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid