Zachary Cole Smith Quotes

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

Zachary Cole Smith

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nature
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine

• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Same

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Constitution

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Going
  • Shaking
  • Booty

• To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Long
  • Education
  • Attention

• When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Love
  • History

• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Focused
  • Fortunate
  • Self-pity

• I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Work
  • Great
  • Live

• Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Recovery