David Fontana Quotes

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

David Fontana

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Mean
  • Criticism
  • Just

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Wrestling

• I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Love
  • Acting
  • More

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Action

• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • May
  • High
  • Beautiful

• It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Great
  • Why
  • College

• The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Decision

• Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Growth

• I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Past

• About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS. So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there.

  

  Christine O'Donnell

• Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Focus
  • Directors
  • Faults

• All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

  

  David Fontana
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Meditation