Danny Wallace Quotes

• The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

  Danny Wallace

  Optimistic, Mind, Needs

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

  Danny Wallace

  Mistake, People, Privilege

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• Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

  Danny Wallace

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

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  Opportunity, Impact, Each Day

  Danny Wallace (2008). “Yes Man”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

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  Life Happens, Said, Best Things

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

  Danny Wallace

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

  Danny Wallace

  Text Messaging, Might, Notes

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• The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

  Danny Wallace

  Opportunity, Only Time

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

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  Responsible, Being Responsible, Ifs

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

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  Stars, People, Gone

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House

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• The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

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  Writing, People, Doubt

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• But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

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  People, Good Things

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

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  Moments, Terrible, Terrible Things

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

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  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• As a kid, so many films made me want to travel... the New York of 'Ghostbusters', the Shanghai that 'Indiana Jones' swung a few punches in. However, if I had to name one film that inspires travel, it would have to be 'E.T.' - especially if I could do it by flying BMX as he did...!

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  New York, Kids, Bmx

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• I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

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  Love You, Saying Yes, World

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

  Danny Wallace

  Suggestions, Favors, Request

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