David Quotes

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

My voice is an instrument.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

I know Dave [Attel] and we're friendly, and I have nothing but respect for him.

I do not want to encourage heckling and outbreaks at all.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.