Quote by David Niven Download Open image ““Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives”” — David Niven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It’s liberating to not have a TV. Television sucks so much life out of our lives. It takes our money, our time, our attention,… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.” — Steve Whigham Copy Share Image
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives… [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.” — David Simon Copy Share Image
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“The nearest analogy to the addictive power of television and the transformation of values that is wrought in the life of the heavy user… — Terrance McKenna Copy Share Image
“I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong. — David Niven Copy Share Image
“Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.” — David Niven Copy Share Image
True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability… — David Niven Copy Share Image
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. — David Niven Copy Share Image
“Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.” — David Niven Copy Share Image
“When we spend time worrying about things that could go wrong, we’re not spending time trying to improve. Which means that worrying about things… — David Niven Copy Share Image
You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“People who lack confidence not only fear doing things they are not good at, they actually start to fear performing tasks in which they… — David Niven Copy Share Image