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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Blow

• Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Remember
  • Presidential

• I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher

• You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Soul
  • Giving

• For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Power

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• 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

• I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Drink

• Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

  

  Andrew Morton

• Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

  

  Sarah Mlynowski
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bored

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

  

  David Fontana
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Meditation