David J. Anderson famous quotes

An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
-- David J. Anderson

#Not Good Enough #Improvement #Catalyst

There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.
-- David J. Anderson

#Two #People #Interesting

Elementary school children are very impressionable
-- David J. Anderson

#Children #School #Elementary School

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
-- David J. Anderson

#Real #Way #Problem

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
-- David J. Anderson

#Successful #Intellectual #Mind

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
-- David J. Anderson

#Islands #Bird #Luck

Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

I am The Catalyst of Change

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.