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Quotes by Jeff Davidson

“Maybe you can find farmers who can bring it up to you.”

“Knock on their doors, ask to talk to the food-service directors.”

“Its just as with any other business. Its tougher to sell to Sears than to Johns Hardware down the street.”

“Watching Old Boy is like getting hit in the mouth.”

“Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God,”

“We firmly believe that God creates every person for a specific plan, purpose and destiny, and that includes the disabled, the handicapped and the challenged.”

“Ours is the most time-pressed generation in history by virtue of the number of things competing for our attention.”

“When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... thats a lot of dollars.”

“They made mistakes in the first two games and we took advantage of it and we made mistakes in the last game and they took advantage of it. Thats what happens when you play good teams. A break here or there can cost you the game.”

“That was a huge play. I think that play set the tone for the whole game.”

Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload.A huge variety of product offering doesnt aid consumers. It is insanity. From the vast array of athletic shoes to bagels to portable CD players to bottled water, there quickly becomes a point at which mega-choices, like mega-information, do not serve the consumer; they abuse him.

A study at Cornell University found that low-level noise both lowered job motivation and increased stress levels. It appears as well that an open-office type of environment can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as a stiff back or tense neck and even heart disease due to increased levels of epinephrine, a stress hormone.

Soetsu Yanagi, in the Unknown Craftsman, writes, Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs. For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.