David Kaufman Quotes
Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
Quotes to Explore
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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No, In fairy talesWhen to the ill-starred Prince the lady says'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast - But I remain the same, up to the last!
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A disciple asked, 'Who is a Master?' The Master replied, 'Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.'
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LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages, and people have parents.
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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
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Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.
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I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.
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I'm able to utilize a lifetime of learning to help teach young people how to apply sound marketing strategy and principles for the purpose of growing the client's business. And for me, that's just too much fun.
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The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
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Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.
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Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.
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Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
