David Seabury Quotes

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

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• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Gymnastics

• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Film
  • Movies

• My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• I am not too intelligent.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Intelligent

• I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • You
  • Shoes
  • Socks

• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Said

• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Money
  • Man
  • Trust

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Hurt
  • Girls
  • Kissing

• You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Career
  • Me
  • Like

• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Generation

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Die
  • Forever

• Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. 'What!' he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, 'looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,'-'You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?'

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Anxiety

• Though Rather is congenitally bad – an admirable heir to Walter Cronkite and his special form of treasonous broadcasting – more insidious are certain chirpy girl-next-door morning TV hosts who characterize the beliefs of ordinary middle-class Americans in terms that would make Goebbels blush.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Men

• If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

  

  Alonso Duralde
  • Destroy
  • Critics
  • Hit

• Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Men
  • Character
  • Talent

• I think I'm a very cerebral player.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Player
  • I Think
  • Cerebral

• Discipline, focus, clarity of vision, listening more than you speak, all these kinds of things enabled me to absorb all that Richard Avedon had to teach when I was an employee of his. It wasn’t an internship, I was hired.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Focus
  • Vision
  • Discipline

• If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

  

  David Seabury