"And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet."

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Source : "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

David Benioff

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes

“I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.”

Source : "SCEA VP on backwards compatibility: 'I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast'" by Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. November 16, 2006.
“To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.”
“A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.”
“Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think weâ€™d better look at what grief might offer us. Itâ€™s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.”
“Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level.”
“I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.”
“Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.”
“The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!”

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