David Macinnis Gill Quotes

A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

David Macinnis Gill

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• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Tour
  • Her

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
  • Workers

• Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Mind
  • Forever
  • Lazy

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Mind
  • Remember

• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • inspirational

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Never

• We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. We've had enough of it. We've seen so many revolutions and wars. We need decades of calm and harmonious development.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Mind
  • War
  • Gay

• In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Responsibility

• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  

  Marie Corelli
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Summer

• Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistake
  • Pay
  • Rue

• A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

  

  David Macinnis Gill
  • Mind