"Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life."

-- James Surowiecki

#Might Quotes #Corporations Quotes #Crash Quotes

“Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.”
“If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.”
“If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.”
“The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.”

Source : "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Angel" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.
“University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.”
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.”

Source : Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”
“But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.”

Source : WILL CARLETON (1895). “RHYMES OF OUR PLANET”

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