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

• 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

• 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

• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • College
  • Expensive
  • Stanford

• In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Education
  • Segregation
  • Liberated

• I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Different
  • Kind

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Growing
  • Hands
  • Expands

• 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