Brian Solis Quotes

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

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• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feels
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Care
  • Teenager
  • Boys

• In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • Loose
  • In Order
  • Life's Purpose

• The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Impression
  • Consequence
  • Deceived

• I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

  

  will.i.am
  • Tweet

• If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Never
  • Appreciate
  • Sunshine

• The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Shadow
  • River
  • Exists

• And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Sorry

• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Desire
  • Chicago

• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Peace
  • Best
  • Garden

• To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

  

  Frederick Delius
  • Color
  • Loveliness
  • Poignancy

• In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Break
  • Human Beings
  • Presence

• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Kids
  • Lucky
  • Human Beings

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Advice
  • Answer
  • Ask

• The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Human Beings
  • Networks
  • Corporate functions