I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.
I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.
I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person. . . always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.
I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.
A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
