Shana Alexander Famous Quotes
"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice."
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."
Shana Alexander Quotations
"These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas."
Brenda Ueland
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
Roald Dahl
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
Jesse Louis Jackson
"We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them."
John F Welch
"The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth."
Henry Miller
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
Washington Irving
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O Malley
"Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony."
Andrew Schneider
We become what we do.
Maylin Soong Chiang
"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."
Bhagavad Gita