Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

- David Shore

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

- David Shore

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

- David Shore

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

- David Shore

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

- David Shore

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying i…

- David Shore

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence…

- David Shore

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

- David Shore

Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the win…

- David Shore