David Butler > Quotes

“Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.”
― David Butler, Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility

“You haven’t read anything until you’ve comprehended it.”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“If we hold on too tightly to what should have been, we will miss what God is doing where we are.”
― David Butler, The Unexpected Deliverer

“We’re all designers now. It’s time to get good at it.”
― David Butler, Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility

“Hosanna is more than just a plea for help. Above all this, hosanna is a cry for salvation. Deliverance. Rescue. Relief. Redemption. Restoration.

...If people discovered that, if they realized what he was offering, perhaps their hosanna shout would shift to gratitude for what was to come.

Hosanna is allowing Him to do His work in His time, to offer deliverance in His way -- even on a donkey.

When you are given a donkey instead of a noble steed, shout hosanna! He will still give you reason to rejoice.”
― David Butler, The Unexpected Deliverer

“Conceptualize the ideas of meaningful word-groups.”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“Learn to swim, and then swim.
-John Lennon when asked, “What’s the meaning of life?”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“In 2013, for example, a seventeen-year-old Australian teenager living in England built a content-shortening app, called Summly, in his bedroom, which he promptly sold to Yahoo for a reported thirty million dollars. Now, imagine the next seventeen-year-old with a 3D printer, and you begin to sense the dimensions of the potential upheaval.”
― David Butler, Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility

“By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, ‘He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends.’”6 I love that translation. He wasn’t just tolerating the people of doubtful reputation; He was treating them like old friends!”
― David Butler, Redeemer: Who He Is and Who He Will Always Be

“What Your Speed Means”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college students never read another book after college. 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of US adults have not been to a bookstore in the last five years. 57% of new books are not read to completion. Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“There is a message of stillness whispered through the pages of scripture, unexpected that you might miss it if you weren't searching for it. Quiet can be overlooked because it doesn't draw attention to itself, and yet we find great power there.”
― David Butler, The Unexpected Deliverer

“you can never know how far any individual can go since reading aptitudes are as unique as basketball or bowling aptitudes.”
― David Butler, Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Learn to Read Ideas Instead of Just Words

“Albert Einstein’s breakthrough theories on the nature of the universe made him the most famous “genius” of all time. Somehow, he had the ability to see what no one else could, to unravel mysteries that most others hadn’t even considered. His antipathy for authority allowed him to see through the haze of the “settled science,” and his childlike curiosity compelled him to continue searching for answers to these incomprehensible mysteries. But how was he so smart? Did he develop his analytical powers through diligent effort? It’s hard to fathom a level of genius like Albert Einstein’s, so it’s too easy to conclude he must have just been born with a special brain. Perhaps he was, we can’t know. But even so, not every seed sprouts. A child born with a misshaped head, slow to speak, and prone to violent temper tantrums, could have been written off before his abilities were ever recognized. He could have been mislabeled — and then lived up (or “down”?) to this label. What would we label a child who can’t pay attention in school, argues with the teacher, refuses to follow instructions, does poorly in most of his classes, and can’t remember his lessons? Fortunately though, for Albert Einstein — and the world — his loving, patient parents consistently endeavored to support and encourage their son’s exceptional independence and curiosity.”
― David Butler, Children Who Changed the World: The Childhood Biographies of Gates, Jobs, Disney, Einstein, Ford, Tesla, and Edison