David Batstone Quotes

I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

David Batstone

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Director

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Age
  • Walking
  • Adult

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Priority

• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Man
  • Sports

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Beginning
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

  

  Sallust
  • Everything
  • Old
  • Grows

• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • Art
  • Soul

• TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Engineering
  • Engineer

• Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

  

  Martha Hunt
  • Up
  • Live
  • Growing

• Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Change
  • Design
  • Process

• Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

  

  James Naismith
  • Purpose
  • Games
  • Development

• I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

  

  David Batstone
  • Education
  • Change
  • Development