S.A. David Quotes

I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

You know what guys do? They stand up for people. You know why? Two reasons. It's right. And it feels good. Even if the person doesn't know what you did. Maybe especially then.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - looking at things you don't want to look at.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

Nobody cares about your products (except you)

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.