David Trumble Quotes

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

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• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Team
  • Yourself

• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Country
  • Moving

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • College
  • Coaching

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Possible
  • Go
  • Fast

• I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Down

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • Crazy
  • Poverty

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Two

• As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Try
  • Choice

• Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Political

• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up

• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Being

• We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

  

  David Trumble
  • Broken
  • Being
  • Adversity