David Shields Quotes

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Successful

• Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Time
  • You
  • Give

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Library

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Company
  • Chinese

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Servant
  • Recollection

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • You
  • Never
  • Losing

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

  

  Kent Haruf

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Value
  • Disappointed

• I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Work
  • Women
  • Religious

• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Die
  • Emotional

• I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

  

  David Shields
  • Emotional
  • Journey