S.A. David Quotes

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The Earth needs rebels!

Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

I like to direct for the big screen.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

You are the only one who has to live your life.

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"