David Quotes

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

You can do anything, not everything

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it.

The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself to that kind of thing. My convention life has legs.

I do Comic-Con and stuff all over the world. They can be taxing and they can take it out of you a little bit, but it's just great for the fans. They get such a kick out of it.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God

Sometimes you need to trust those around you because they may see something in you that you can't see

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

My whole family has been such a great support, and theyre the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.