David Allen Quotes

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

David Allen

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Living
  • Fame

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Always
  • Language
  • Learn

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Decisions

• There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Parents

• People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Happy

• It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".

  

  Danielle Ofri
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Values

• But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Communicate
  • Repressed
  • Resistances

• A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Book
  • Thoughts
  • Bones

• Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Support
  • Building
  • Israel

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

  

  David Allen
  • Ideas
  • Having
  • Holding