Dave Eggers Quotes
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
Quotes to Explore
-
I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
-
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
-
We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
-
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
-
Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
-
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
-
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
-
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
-
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
-
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
-
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
-
There are no rules to writing a song.
-
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
-
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
-
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
-
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
-
Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.
-
I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
-
During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
-
People plan, God laughs.
-
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
-
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
