S.A. David Quotes

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

As the oceans go, so do we.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.