David Quotes

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

Never stop listening to your audience.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

Jon Bolton is the neocon's neocon. He was a hawk straight down the line. He wanted to bomb Iran five, six years ago before the Donald Trump election!

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.

I think Hillary Clinton has a lot of lee way to go, either direction, and to probably most likely try to fudge it and get both parts of the party into talking points.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn't true, he kept saying again and again and again.

I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.

The Republican base is not reflective of the whole country.

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.

One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

People quit people before they quit companies.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be."

For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.