Downtime Salon Quotes & Sayings

This world extends beyond this room, Adele. There are the streets of Vienna and beyond that Europe and beyond that a globe in space in orbit around a star in a universe. But how do I know that for sure? I cannot see the globe spinning on its axis right now as I speak to you. How can I be sure? I can be sure because it's logical; the mathematics is sound and respected by the orbits of the planets. I can verify it's true, not by looking at it, but by thinking about it. — Janna Levin

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with. — William Clay Ford Jr.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons. — Sally Quinn

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation. — Jess Row

That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence. — Mike Candrea

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. — Michael Ledeen

That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases. — Grace Coolidge