David Perkins Quotes
Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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Hills are terrific for running.
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Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
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In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, 'If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.' Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.
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I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can I get it?' And she'll say, 'Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.'
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I like romanticizing romance.
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
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If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
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Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
