I. D. Douglas Quotes

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

There is no bad in good.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.