David Sloan Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  • That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

  • Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.

  • Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

  • If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

  • If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

  • Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

  • I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

  • Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough.

  • A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.