"Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems."

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Keith Johnstone

#Problem Quotes #Solve Quotes

“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

Source : "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.
“She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin
“Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.”
“I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.”

Source : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books
“I know what it means to sit in that chair for four or five hours. For me, it's actually thrilling because I get to know something that I'm not used to. The others do that every working day. It's a real commitment, not only in terms of acting in front of a camera, but just in order to get there.”
“What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.”
“Work with people who believe what you believe.”
“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...”

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