Dave Gorman Quotes

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

Dave Gorman

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• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Situation

• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Think
  • Single

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Look
  • More
  • Retro

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Hunting

• There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart

• There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Kids

• I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • God
  • Focus

• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• In 'Bunny,' I have got my dialogues - almost 80 per cent of my shots were okayed in a single take. I did put in effort and did a lot of homework.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Single
  • Effort

• Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Business
  • Value
  • Model

• I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Bush

• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

  

  Milarepa
  • Religious
  • Building
  • Separation

• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • True
  • Help
  • Feeling

• The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Pain
  • Taken

• The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

  

  Dave Gorman
  • Pain
  • Stronger
  • Offending