David Friedman Quotes

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

David Friedman

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• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Idea
  • First
  • New

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Best
  • Advice
  • Follow

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Question

• These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Space

• Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Political
  • Change

• The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Nature

• My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

  

  David Friedman
  • Career
  • Growing