Shift Solutions Quotes

#1. I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.

Peter Landesman

#2. No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

Raymond Loewy

#3. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

Derrick Jensen

#5. I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

Cate Blanchett

#6. The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

#7. I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

Frances Beinecke

#8. To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

George A. Sheehan

#9. Getting pissed wouldn't fix it. Damn it.

John Green

#10. Philosophy begins with wonder.

Aristotle.

#11. Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.

Farshad Asl

#12. We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

John W. Thompson

#13. Comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.

Glenda Jackson

#14. Every generation spins the wheel,Anya, and where it lands defines 'the good'. Funny thing is they never know that they're spining it, and it hits something different every time.

Gabrielle Zevin

#15. Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Mary E. Pearson

#16. Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, "Aw, who cares?" And then I think, "Hey, what's for supper?

Jack Handy