Patti Smith Quotes

The focus has to be about making good work. I don't ever want to be hired for a job because I'm a woman. And I don't ever want to be recognized for a job because I'm a woman.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

Ability is sexless.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

It doesn't matter if I am the lead or a man is the lead actor in a film. What really matters to me is that I give my 100 per cent to my job.

In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.