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| f5b7a88 | The cultural Left has contributed to the formation of this politically useless unconscious not only by adopting "power" as the name of an invisible, ubiquitous, and malevolent presence, but by adopting ideals which nobody is yet able to imagine being actualized. Among these ideals are participatory democracy and the end of capitalism. Power will pass to the people, the Sixties Left believed only when decisions are made by all those who may.. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| 19b6553 | There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 567c02a | One of the conflicts inherent in having choice is that we all make different ones. There is always an opportunity cost, and I don't know any woman who feels comfortable with all her decisions. As a result, we inadvertently hold that discomfort against those who remind us of the path not taken. Guilt and insecurity make us second-guess ourselves and, in turn, resent one another.' | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 94de104 | These aren't personal questions. They are human questions, | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e0fc74b | Avoiding feelings isn't the same as protecting feelings. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d1039a7 | You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement."5" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| aad01b5 | Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. Gloria Steinem said it best: 'You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.' | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b1c2b37 | It's a jungle gym, not a ladder. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| cfb6b63 | counting our blessings doesn't boost our confidence or our effort, but counting our contributions can. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0dcd922 | hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get throughout our lives--the messages that say it's wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2997a04 | But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets, they envisioned a century later, men and women would be truly equal. A century later, we are still squinting, trying to bring that vision into focus. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 66f3c36 | A well-dressed, self-assured business executive steps into a quiet corner of the conference room, crowded with people. Everyone there is aware of her presence. She's dark-haired, petite, and alluring. She is quick to smile, and when she does, her whole face lights up. Her enthusiasm is infectious. Young men and women nod as they pass by, briefly breaking off their conversations with colleagues. The executive looks down at her compact electr.. | inspirational business-leaders middle-school phenomenal-female-entrepreneurs strong-role-models-for-girls sheryl-sandberg | Jill Bryant | |
| 2126057 | In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 51df7d5 | My coworkers should understand that I need to go to a party tonight--and this is just as legitimate as their kids' soccer game--because going to a party is the only way I might actually meet someone and start a family so I can have a soccer game to go to one day! | work-life-balance | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| b7e43a7 | You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. | opportunities inspirational | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| c1ba9c1 | An internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet 100 percent of the criteria listed. Men apply if they think they meet 60 percent of the requirements. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 70c00a8 | Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.17 | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0be6d8c | Imagine that a career is like a marathon--a long, grueling, and ultimately rewarding endeavor. Now imagine a marathon where both men and women arrive at the starting line equally fit and trained. The gun goes off. The men and women run side by side. The male marathoners are routinely cheered on: "Lookin' strong! On your way!" But the female runners hear a different message. "You know you don't have to do this!" the crowd shouts. Or "Good st.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| cdc5d43 | Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a17e208 | Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward." | women lean-in | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 2e280b2 | Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get o.. | lean-in | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 70366f0 | As Gloria Steinem observed, "Whoever has power takes over the noun--and the norm--while the less powerful get an adjective." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| af0381f | Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7313958 | Sharing emotions builds deeper relationships. Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about. To really care about others, we have to understand them--what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recognizing the role emotions play and being willing to discuss | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 081a92b | I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| aa33cd4 | When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." For" -- | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ed2f86c | When we are no longer able to change a situation," psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, "we are challenged to change ourselves." After" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 35605a2 | Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self. After | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f76784a | An internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet 100 percent of the criteria listed. Men apply if they think they meet 60 percent of the requirements. This difference has a huge ripple effect. Women need to shift from thinking 'I'm not ready to do that' to thinking 'I want to do that-- and I'll learn by doing it. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7be610e | Isaac Rothe, Matthias | J.R. Ward | ||
| ad5fbdf | Happy people have just as much pain as anyone else, in some cases more. It could even be argued that the happy feel pain more acutely than the unhappy, whose feelings are relatively numb. The real difference in happy people is that they're not trapped by their pain. Rather than settling inside a happy soul, pain moves through it as through a channel, and that channel is joy. Joy keeps pain moving. | Mike Mason | ||
| b508f9b | so the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem. | Mike Mason | ||
| 06c2c2a | My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego. | depression motivation philosophy idleness despair | Geoff Dyer | |
| 96080d9 | if mankind was put on earth to create works of art, then other people were put on earth to comment on those works, to say what they think of them. Not to judge objectively or critically assess these works but to articulate their feelings about them with as much precision as possible, without seeking to disguise the vagaries of their nature, their lapses of taste and the contingency of their own experiences, even if those feelings are of con.. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| d7c5851 | Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning. | war | David Hackett Fischer | |
| 884b8be | Usually they looked past me hopefully and some even went and peered into the car to see if the man they really wanted was hiding in there. And it was uphill work examining an animal when its owner was chafing in the background, wishing with all his heart that I was somebody else. But I had to admit they were fair. I got no effusive welcomes and when I started to tell them what I thought about the case they listened with open scepticism, but.. | James Herriot | ||
| 51de183 | The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped. | James Herriot | ||
| 612ba43 | Then the bull shook himself, turned his head and looked at us. There was an awed whisper from one of the young men: "By gaw, it's working!" I enjoyed myself after that. I can't think of anything in my working life that has given me more pleasure than standing in that pen directing the life-saving jet and watching the bull savouring it." | James Herriot | ||
| 815d134 | But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite of oneself | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ff61316 | After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ed474ec | It must have been-hell!" Merivale said. "Just so," bowed his Grace. "It was the very worst kind of hell, as I know." "The wonder is that she has come through it unscathed." The hazel eyes lifted. "Not quite unscathed, my dear Anthony. Those years have left their mark." "It were inevitable, I suppose. But I confess I have not seen the mark." "Possibly not. You see the roguery, and the dauntless spirit." "And you?" Merivale watched him curiou.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| be5bd7a | They dined early, and as soon as the meal was over Margaret went up to change into the frock she had worn on the previous evening. With a praiseworthy attention to detail she made her hair look tousled, and wiped all the powder off her face. As Charles remarked, in a newly engaged girl this deed almost amounted to heroism. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7298e6b | I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?" "And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know." "I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!" "Or leave you as you are," said Sir Maurice gently." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2fdbf04 | Perhaps Charis did not realize that when one had passed through a time of terrible anxiety relief did not immediately restore the tone of one's mind. To be sure, she herself had not expected that after the first raptures she would find herself subject to fits of dejection, and much inclined to be crotchety; but still Charis should have known better than to have enacted a tragical scene within an hour of her arrival. | Georgette Heyer |