Lee Smith Quotes

For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.

Lee Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 1, 1944

Topics

WorkFamilyWomenBalanceSociety

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Jim Yong Kim

LeadershipGoodLeaderJobHumility

I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

GoodAgeTimeManI AmResearch

I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude.

Max Winkler

GoodMindTalkingBecauseDudeHe

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Matthew Lesko

BusinessWaysImagined

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

Jean Smart

WorldRestFatDietYouKnow

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

Sissy Spacek

FearKnowNo FearAudienceWhatever

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

Rose George

EducationHealthResponsibilityLabor

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

Jonathan Tropper

ChildBookOwnLikeYourPerforming

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Jordan Peterson

MusicMeMeaningMysteriousAlways

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

Dionne Bromfield

EasySongwritingFirstHardFound

My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

DMX

LifeGodRelationshipMeListening

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

Desmond Dekker

HomeDayKingMeSongThought

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Lee Smith