Jeslin Salon Quotes

#1. [Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Albert Einstein

#2. America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

#3. I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#4. In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.

Mickey Drexler

#5. As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Michael Greger

#6. The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

Seth Klarman

#7. The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.

Kilroy J. Oldster