Oliver Smith quotes

Oliver Smith quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.”
-- Oliver Smith

#Sorry Quotes #Needs Quotes #Bother Quotes

“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today. ~Jessop”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“Remember you love writing.Â It wouldnâ€™t be worth it if you didnâ€™t.Â If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,”
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”
“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”
“Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?”
“I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.”

Source : Amanda Palmer (2015). “The Art of Asking: Wie ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und lernte, mir helfen zu lassen”, p.126, BASTEI LÜBBE
“And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...”

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