Al David Quotes

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

Small but growing is better than big and stuck.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are.

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps, ” he said.“I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn’t exactly looking for a taste experience, ” said Corell.“Man always tries to limit his suffering.

It's not just the wounded who suffer.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.

I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.

Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.

I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.

How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

Success is seasonal.

Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?

There can be no god without desire.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

What’s the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don’t get any deader.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.