David Quotes

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

Love is saying yes to belonging.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

What you plan is too small for you to live.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.