Willi Smith famous quotes

Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.
-- Willi Smith

#Order #Giving #Mind

I feel like everything in your life begins with physical conditioning. I love eating sweets and stuff like that but I feel like the quality of my parenting is based on my physical conditioning; the quality of my relationship with my wife, the quality of all the interactions I have in my life start with being in great physical condition.
-- Willi Smith

#Sweet #Wife #Quality

Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.
-- Willi Smith

#Gains #Want #Way

Being black has a lot to do with my...
-- Willi Smith

#African American #Black

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.
-- Willi Smith

#Queens #Clothes #People

The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.
-- Willi Smith

#Sports #Life Lesson #Athlete

I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.
-- Willi Smith

#Kids #Thinking #Editing

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.