Ekehagens Quotes & Sayings

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help. — Laura Schlessinger

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais

When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it - meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride. — Dan Ariely

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. — Jack Paar

Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb ... at gunpoint, if necessary. — Guy Maddin

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. — Irving R. Kaufman

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain? — Alice Tisdale Hobart

Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker ... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life. — Thomas Merton