David Deida Quotes

Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

David Deida

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Know

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trying

• Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Together
  • Responsibility
  • Compassion

• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Hope

• Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Heaven

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • Good
  • Long
  • Purpose