Nicholas Davies (Nick Davies) Quotes

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

Nicholas Davies

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• Zigzags

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• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Like

• I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • School

• The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Experience

• The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

  

  Jay Leno
  • People
  • Wine
  • Beer

• I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Mind

• I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Author

• Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Great
  • Promise

• You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.

  

  Matt Ryan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Fall

• At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Wheel

• A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • Band
  • Dealing

• We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

  

  Jim Otto
  • Great

• The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Zigzags