David Mitchell Quotes

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.

We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

I'll have my way, In my own time, I'll have my say, My star will shine...

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you to stop it.

My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.