Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
-
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
-
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
-
My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
-
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
-
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
-
It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
-
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
-
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
-
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
-
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
-
Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
-
Adulthood is hell.
-
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.
-
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
-
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
-
Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
-
Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
-
To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
-
Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
-
Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
-
You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.
-
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
-
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
