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“No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.”

“As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.”

Knows Want Persons I Can Philosophy Helping Feelings Asks Growth Realizing Space Knowing Inspire Not Knowing Cliffs Stairs Elevators Space Between

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.”

Men Enough Bigs Friendship Growing Dog Apartment Elevators Hassle

Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.”

Book Moments Lasts Three Cases Happened Accidents Coincidence Elevators Lifeboats

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.”

People Way Running Memories Doors Sugar Salt Apartment Spectators Elevators Good Memories

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.”

Persons Able School Used Numbers Office Humorous Phones Used To Be Telephones Elevators Answering Machines Wrong Number

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.”

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Author:Allen West

“The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.”

Want Persons Purpose Situation Solutions Compelling Elevators

Author:Seth Godin

“If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.”

Ifs Trying Wells Done Helping Next Generations Talent Duty Down And Next Generation Elevators

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.”

Life Is Up And Down Life Is Like Ups & Downs Elevators

Author:Keith Douglas

“The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.”

Men Needs Science Europe Boxes Lifts Appreciated Cigar Elevators Patents

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.”

Two Night Rooms My Friends Wine Glasses Dinner Ran Halls Elevators Downtown Wine Glass Eyeglasses

Author:Jill Clayburgh

“Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.”

Stairs Elevators Inferno Grooming Personal Grooming

Author:Anders Zorn

“I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.”

People Lines Car Building Walking Shots Bored Seconds Elevators Walking Away

Author:Dick Wolf

“What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.”

Knows Looks Doe Suffering Black Perfect Cities Imagine Shapes Angel Boxes Teeth Elevators Shack Black Boxes

Book:The Intuitionist: A Novel

Source: The Intuitionist: A Novel

“When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!”

Order Elevators Upstairs

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.”

People Life Is Pushing Rapper Buttons Life Is Like Ups & Downs Elevators

Author:LeCrae

“I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.”

My Own Musician My Friends Clubs Collections Listening To Music Elevators

Author:Natalia Kills

“I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.”

Space Elevators

Author:Amanda Lindhout

“Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.”

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).”

Reason Facts America Numbers Heard New York Claims Labels Hotel Buttons Elevators Unlucky

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.”

Next Heaven Hell Meetings Noise Disagree Up And Down Great Power Elevators

Author:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.”

People Thinking Problem Asks Advice Available Ask Me Friendly Call Me Italian Persona Elevators

Author:Joyce DeWitt

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