Valleys Quotes - Page 31

• In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Clouds, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Mindset, Silicon

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• It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Autumn, Rivers

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• To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.

  Wallace Stegner

  Eye, Independent, Trying

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

  Joel Salatin

  Flower, Mean, Cutting

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• Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Pain, Eye

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

  Robert W. Service

  Lonely, Sunset, Fate

  Robert William Service, “The Land God Forgot”

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• I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

  Cheech Marin

  Half, Grew Up, South

  "Back with a bong". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Military, War, June

  "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

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• Yet for every peak there is a valley.

  Garth Stein

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

  Vinod Khosla

  Matter, Remember, Bigs

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• Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Mind, Sorrow

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.151

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• We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Tired, Way, Reason

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• I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

  Chris Hughes

  Silicon, Knows, Silicon Valley

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• To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Moon, Night

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• My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

  Daryn Kagan

  Phones, Cells, Two

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• You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mountain

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• North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Hollywood, Glamorous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Successful, Feet, Entrepreneur

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• 106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

  Jay Leno

  Degrees, Sweating, Forged

  "The Tonight Show", September 10, 2004.

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• The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Google, Next, Silicon

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• Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Climbing, Mountain, Cracks

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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