Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

David Bowie

Categorized in : Thinking People Successful

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

David Bowie

moving-on change motivational

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

David Bowie

recovery fear clever

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

David Bowie

reading oxford book

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

David Bowie

superhuman tomorrow

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

David Bowie

making-changes causes change

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

David Bowie

communication mean book

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

David Bowie

love-life morning giving

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

David Bowie

eccentricity realms

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

David Bowie

alive ifs

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

David Bowie

race winning running

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

David Bowie

trying children world

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

David Bowie

want looks way

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

dream inspiring reality

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

David Bowie

style choices civilization

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

David Bowie

infinite ends

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

David Bowie

librarian born sex

The moment you know you know you know.

David Bowie

moments knows

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

David Bowie

ifs art

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

David Bowie

graduation promise travel

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

David Bowie

dense gasoline fire