When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. – Helen Hayes #infj
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”
Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny – or not so tiny – leap of the imagination is made. – Graham Joyce
Just because you are CEO, dont think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. Ive never forgotten that. – Indra Nooyi
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I like having my hair and face done, but Im not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. – Adele
