David Quotes

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

Nothing's boring if it's in your soul.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

I think most Americans don't agree with the idea that the best qualified person should not get the job.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.