Downsized Quotes & Sayings

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it. — Alan Thicke

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. — Henry Giroux

Your ego's job isn't to serve you. Its only job is to keep itself in power. And right now, your ego's scared to death cuz it's about to get downsized. You keep up this spiritual path, baby, and that bad boy's days are numbered. Pretty soon your ego will be out of work, and your heart'll be making all the decisions. So your ego's fighting for its life, playing with your mind, trying to assert its authority, trying to keep you cornered off in a holding pen away from the rest of the universe. Don't listen to it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive. — Helen Fisher

But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily. — Daphne Kalotay

That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else. — George Orwell

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath. — Ray Bradbury

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels) ... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge. — A.K. Nicholas

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless — William Shakespeare

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience. — Joshua Leonard

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. — Lee Child

I was recently downsized. That's the twenty-first-century way of saying I got canned. She — Stephen King

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. — Maya Angelou