S.A. David Quotes

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

Ground control to Major Tom.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

We live like Heaven already, a little bit of Heaven right here and now! What could we have more?-Only more of the same and better!

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

The secret of the team's success is easy - unity and hard work.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

Christ lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect and strengthen us.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.