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title: "3 Competent Quotes By Kenny Smith"
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> [How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/how-infinitely-happier-and-more-grateful-is-the-whole-personality-or/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

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> [Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/values-and-verdicts-never-bother-me-half-as-much-as-people-trying-to/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/kenny-smith-2406_bother_values-and-verdicts-never-bother-me-half_792638.png)

> [Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/human-life-is-an-extension-of-the-principles-of-nature-and-human/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

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## Other authors on Competent

## More by Kenny Smith

> [The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/the-approach-of-intellect-or-noesis-will-forever-be-an-effete-and/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/one-can-hardly-appreciate-how-academia-has-perverted-its-highest/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/when-academics-claim-a-topic-is-obsolete-they-mean-merely-they-are/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/if-you-look-at-the-nba-it-s-the-richest-and-wealthiest-group-of/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/in-late-modernity-we-grow-more-and-more-accustomed-to-politicians-and/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/how-infinitely-happier-and-more-grateful-is-the-whole-personality-or/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/there-are-a-lot-more-famous-fathers-out-there-than-me-with-daughters/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/games-like-call-of-duty-and-nba-baller-beats-have-so-much-to-them-i/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/the-rockets-have-a-philosophy-of-what-they-think-their-coach-should-be/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/i-ve-played-more-park-games-than-nba-games-and-i-had-a-10-year-nba/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/i-m-always-the-neutral-guy-man-i-m-able-to-bring-people-together/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/people-compose-the-schedules-they-do-out-of-the-priorities-they-have/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/there-s-hasn-t-been-a-day-in-my-life-since-i-was-9-years-old-that-i/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/you-can-have-your-own-thought-process-about-things-but-you-still-need/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/ncaa-is-looking-at-how-to-do-a-better-job-enforcing-their-rules/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

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