David L. Katz Quotes

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

David L. Katz

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Light
  • Effort

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Kind
  • Possible

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• My goal is to always be improving my skills.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Skills

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Opinion
  • Will
  • Against

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Feel

• The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • She
  • Stop
  • Attention

• Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Control
  • Courage
  • Curiosity

• For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Time
  • Control

• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  

  John Updike
  • Life
  • Work
  • Control

• Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Control
  • Smile
  • Luck

• We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

  

  David L. Katz
  • Control
  • Risk
  • Exotic