I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
— Danielle Dax
I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
— Daniel Tammet
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.
— Daniel Lubetzky
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
— Daniel Kahneman
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
— Daniel Defoe
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
— Daniel Boone
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
— Daniel Barenboim
I'm a worrier by nature.
— Dana Perino
With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
— Dan Futterman
I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
— Dan Amboyer
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
— D. B. Weiss
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
— Cyril Connolly
The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.
— Curt Smith
Sometimes I need a slower pace, to slow my mind down and just be with nature, go outside.
— Danielle Brooks
We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
— Daniel Suarez
I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
— Daniel Nestor
I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel.
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?
— Daniel H. Wilson
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
— Daniel Craig
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.
— Danica Patrick
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
— Dan Shechtman
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
— Dan Colen
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
— Damon Lindelof
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
— Dalai Lama
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
— D. H. Lawrence
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
— Criss Angel
Nature is a beautiful thing - it does what it needs to do when it needs to do it.
— Daniela Ruah
At the World Cup, I carried my mum's Caribbean sauce around with me. She makes her own, and I brought it to Brazil - I needed to have it there. We're very down-to-earth; it's the nature of my family. We came from nothing.
— Daniel Sturridge
What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.
— Daniel Lyons
Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
— Daniel H. Pink
I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
— Daniel Bryan
The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.
— Daniel Berehulak
Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
— Dan Levy
The mission of the Secret Service (to keep the president of the United States safe and secure) is, by its very nature, pivotal to the proper functioning of the country, and any failure to accomplish this mission has the potential to cause an immediate international crisis.
— Dan Bongino
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
— Damon Galgut
I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.
— Dakin Matthews
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
— Cynthia Weil
