David O. McKay Quotes
An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
Quotes to Explore
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.
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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
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Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.
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I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.
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An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
