"There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak."

-- Dave Pelzer

#Speak Quotes #Dave Quotes #Mania Quotes

“The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.”
“I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them.”
“You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.”
“The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.”
“The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.”
“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”
“It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough”
“Keep you enemies in front of you.”

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