“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.” KindPastPeaceNumbersMorningDistancePainfulGet UpIntensityRecalls Author:Leonard Cohen
“I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.” IfsTwoNamesNumbersMorningUrgesAirline Author:Warren Buffett
“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.” IfsTryingDoeWholeBigsGovernmentNextPoliticsPresidentNumbersTalkingMorningToo MuchFailingAmountHigherRaisedAgendasRepresentativesSenatorsNext DayReelection Author:Patricia Schroeder
“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.” PeopleYearsImportantAbleRememberMemoriesNumbersBrainMorningStreetsYouthEmotionalYears AgoPhonesAddressesLastingStrongestBreakfastFadesRecallsEmbeddedFade AwayPhone Numbers Author:Daniel Levitin
“Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.” PeopleThinkingWorldEnoughRunningHoursNumbersMorningEconomicTelevisionInternetNewsRadioEvery MorningEnough TimeTime To Think Author:Costa-Gavras
“People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm not acting on a movie, I go to work, first thing in the morning. I'm at work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I get home from work at 7 o'clock at night. I treat my job like a job, and I work at it. I think people would probably be most surprised, if I ever calculated up the number of hours I work on an average week and published that. If it was ever documented, I think people would be shocked to find out.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsHomeWould BeJobsNightHoursNumbersActingMorningWeekOfficeTreatsAverageClockShockedDisbelief Author:Ashton Kutcher
“A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.” PeopleLittlesDecisionNumbersWonderMorningMilitaryBedMondayPercentagesOrganisationMonday MorningSmall NumbersRationale Author:Ricardo Semler
“Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back.” PeopleWorldWantStillsInspirationAmericaNumbersLeaderMorningTomorrowOfficeRatingEmbassyTomorrow Morning Author:Colin Powell