Iris Smyles famous quotes

There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right ones. Most people don't go through life without making mistakes, but sometimes you meet someone who seems to hit all the marks. But they never seem to know very much. They have success and luck but no real wisdom.
-- Iris Smyles

#Real #Mistake #Adventure

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.
-- Iris Smyles

#Dream #Thinking #Desire

As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.
-- Iris Smyles

#Children #Husband #Kids

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.
-- Iris Smyles

#Thinking #Long #Purpose

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.
-- Iris Smyles

#Believe #Important #I Believe

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.
-- Iris Smyles

#Country #Thinking #Making Up

It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.
-- Iris Smyles

#Acknowledge #Universe

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.