Al David Quotes
Creativity is a team sport.
Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.
When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.
You’re here. You’re real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you’re becoming. The past you can’t change. The future is what matters.
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.
Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.
The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.
Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?
Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.
What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?
The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.
These mental and physical components of self belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the personal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.
When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.
Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend’s nether region I wrestled a fifty free.
Propping up a seat at the bar we devour chicken wings like life does dreams
It's a special form of scholarly neurosis, ´ said Camel. 'He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´
All things human begin with words.
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.
Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside
The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.
Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.
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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.
Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.
The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.
Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings.
God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.
Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.
It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.
This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.
…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.
The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.
Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.
