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Lillian Smith Quotes

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1897 - September 28, 1966

Topics

Learning Time Listening Looking Die

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

Teacher Money Training Care Golf

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Anatoly Rybakov

History People Die Write Up Just

The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.

Business School People Mind Looks

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

Path Me Human Everything Up Things

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Respect Practice Growing Up Speak Up

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

Michel Hazanavicius

Funny Freedom Great Care Movies Own

I'm lively and gay by nature.

Nature Gay Lively

I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.

You Play Same Years Variety Role

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

Hunting Grocery Store Store Our

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

Women Live Vision Men Peace Harmony

Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.

Job People Organization Nobody Order

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

Best Win Help I Can Go Chicago

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