S.A. David Quotes

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.

Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.

As one thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.

We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

Today is important only in light of what we do for God.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

Messi does incredible things, his stats make you cover your eyes. He cannot be compared to anyone.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.