David Quotes

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

Young people are still looking and older people have found.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

When God created the universe, this world beautifully and gloriously revealed his unfathomable being.

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.