The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
