Riley Smith Quotes

I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.

Riley Smith

• Business
• Simple
• Everyone
• Genuine

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• I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Years
  • Riding
  • Spent

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Today
  • Knowledge
  • Wind

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Food

• I have admired Kevin Plank and Under Armour from afar. He has assembled an impressive team.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Team

• If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Time
  • Important

• In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

  

  Adam Scott

• I had low self-esteem.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill

• I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

  

  Amos Lee

• A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Couple

• It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • America

• There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode

• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

  

  James Spader
  • Death
  • Lost
  • Dog

• Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Character
  • Bad

• The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Complaining

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Life
  • Business
  • Parents

• My Pleasure is my business

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Business

• I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.

  

  Riley Smith
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Everyone