David Knopfler Quotes

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

David Knopfler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 27, 1952

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CreativeSchoolLogicExpectation

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

Jennifer Morrison

ChangeGoodPastRedPeopleMe

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

John Forsythe

LifeWorkLoveBalanceHappySaid

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

GreatPeopleProblemsEveryoneBeing

Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.

John Rampton

FamilyTimeMyselfStressColleagues

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Sting

SuccessFreedomYouAbilityWhatever

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

Skylar Grey

WorkLeaderVisionYourselfPeople

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

Tom Brokaw

PeaceGiftNameSpeechWillBecome

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

Ron Silver

EducationGoodPeopleAdmireTurn

Women want to be tamed.

Mike Cernovich

WomenWantTamed

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

Mo Udall

WinterRichIceYouUnderstandPoor

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

Logan Lerman

TimeMyselfExperienceSomeoneYou

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

MomentExperienceFocusForwardEnd

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