David Walter Foster Quotes & Sayings

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. — Marianne Williamson

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. — Harold Geneen

Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important. — Sandra Harner

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. — Graham Greene

My best friend, Andrew Goldberg - and this is genuinely not me trying to cross-promote, but this new Netflix show I'm doing called Big Mouth is about me and my best friend, Andrew Goldberg, from childhood - but there was a year when I went to his house after school every day and we watched Wayne's World and ate Doritos. — Nick Kroll

He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. — John Tillotson

I'm not sure I can be what they want me to be. But I'll try. — A.S. King

Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts. — James Joyce

With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year. — David Gordon Green

Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership. — Pearl Zhu

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death. — May Sarton

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. — Michael Stipe