S.A. David Quotes

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

You can do anything, but not everything.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.

Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.