David Shore Quotes

Canada, Writer
July 3, 1959

David Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He created the critically acclaimed series House and more recently, Battle Creek, Sneaky Pete and The Good Doctor.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

David Shore
- People
- Changes
- Late
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore
- Things
- Means
- Dealing

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

David Shore
- Heart
- Want
- Stories
Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

David Shore
- Team
- Always
- Though
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

David Shore
- Important
- Things
- Ignore
If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

David Shore
- Care
- Person
- Down
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

David Shore
- Reason
- Pleasure
- Supposed
You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

David Shore
- Choices
- Decisions
- Make

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore
- Focus
- Someone
- Condition
People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

David Shore
- Choose
- Amount
- Rewards