David Gelernter Quotes
The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
-
I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
-
Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
-
No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
-
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
-
Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
-
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
-
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
-
Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.
-
I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.
-
My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
-
I've tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.
-
I really did always want to do theater.
-
I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
-
I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.
-
At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
-
Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.
-
I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.
-
People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
-
If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
-
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
-
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
-
The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.
