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David Shields Quotes

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1956

Topics

Hate Writing You Flaws Kind Pretend

A company that is big is never really bad but also not really good.

Good Bad Never Company Big Really

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Time People Long Back Earth Want

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Time Angry Person Civilization Rock

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn't matter what you say or how you say it.

Work Government Law Language Enough

My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Work Business Yourself Control You

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Me Mom Care Take Care I Can Done

It is important to remember yourself.

Yourself Remember Important

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Money You Three Will Never Need

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

Doing Year Honey Years Up Somewhere

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

Time Football World Golf Year Tiger

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

Love Child Parents Bad Always Going

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

Music Game Year Fantasy Orchestra

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