David Quotes

A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

A yogi is one who leaves a place a little nicer than when they arrived.

I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction

But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

Pay attention to the sound of words.

Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.

Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC.

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.

I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.

I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.

I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

And I love shooting football.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.