David Allen Quotes

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

David Allen

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• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Down
  • Guitar
  • Three

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Teach
  • Exhausted

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Different
  • Need
  • Own

• Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Music
  • Action
  • Moments

• Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Wealth

• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

  Sallust

• One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

  

  Francis Beaumont
  • Love
  • Power
  • Hurt

• Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

  

  David Allen
  • Power
  • Ability
  • Relax