David Quotes

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

If you want to be interesting, be interested.

When you advertise fire extinguishers, open with the fire.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

What you learn is more important than what you earn.

Positioning should be decided before the advertising is created

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

Compete with the immortals

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product.

If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

I come to play everyday.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

Management by Walking Around

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken