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| e21b883 | Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the greatest good. If you have no greatest good, you have no hierarchy, you have no priorities. If you have no priorities, you cannot make intelligent choices. If you cannot make intelligent moral choices, you have no morality. You can still guide your life by your feelings or by social fashions, but that.. | decision-making freedom morality philosophy | Peter Kreeft | |
| bafb393 | You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. | faith prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 59d4959 | Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God. | faith god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 7fb86cc | As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c6f8535 | Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives. | faith god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 7340199 | One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of your addiction. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e9da5ec | St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| bb7ccc5 | You see, passion alone is a blind power. It's fire without light. It just ignites whatever it touches, good or evil, truth or lies, unselfishness or selfishness, love or lust. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d2cb4b0 | Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| bb07fcf | One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hardest part of any negotiation is agreeing to start it. Once you've gotten past that emotional barrier, the solutions usually present themselves. | parenting | Bruce Feiler | |
| c013234 | Create a safe zone. Every parent quickly learns that every child--and every adult--handles conflict differently. Some push back when criticized, some turn inward, some break down in tears. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 4a56f36 | Part of every misery," C. S. Lewis wrote, is "misery's shadow...the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| fd1cd90 | 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.19 | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6771b5c | It may not be as dramatic or funny to make a movie about a woman who loves both her job and her family, but that would be a better reflection of reality. We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers-- | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f3a9ae3 | success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c41c4c8 | Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others). Our stereotype of men holds that they are providers, decisive, and driven. Our stereotype of women holds that they are caregivers, sensitive, and communal. Because we characterize men and women in opposition to each other, professional achieve.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| dfaa1ac | When Gloria Steinem marched in the streets to fight for the opportunities that so many of us now take for granted, she quoted Susan B. Anthony, who marched in the streets before her and concluded, "Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going."27 The sentiment remains true today. We need to be grateful for what we have but dissatisfied with the status quo. This dissatisfaction spurs the charg.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d2d5f9a | When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don't have a partner. They were right. I didn't get it. I didn't get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home. I wrote a chapter titled "Make Your Partner a Real Partner" about the importance of couples splitting child care and housework 50/50. Now I see how insensitive and unhelpful this wa.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 30256b0 | Self-compassion often coexists with remorse. It does not mean shirking responsibility for our past. It's about making sure that we don't beat ourselves up so badly that we damage our future. It helps us realize that doing a bad thing does not necessarily make us a bad person. Instead of thinking "if only I weren't," we can think "if only I hadn't." This is why confession in the Catholic religion begins with "Forgive me, Father, for I have s.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e890256 | As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4052bff | We 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 | ||
| 0e508ec | Peggy Mcintosh] explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they are -- impostors with limited skills or.. | glass-ceiling women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 13e3c8c | It should be a badge of honor for men to sponsor women. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6cb2661 | This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls "relentlessly pleasant."22 This method requires smiling frequently, expressing appreciation and concern, invoking common interests, emphasizing larger goals, and approaching the negotiation as solving a problem as opposed to taking a critical stance.23 Most negotiations involve drawn-out, successive mo.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| eb78bf4 | It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations. | gender-equality gender-stereotypes | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 683982a | My colleague Maxine Williams, head of diversity at Facebook, told me that she believes many people succumb to the mum effect around race. 'Even after an unarmed black person is killed for reaching over to show a cop his license, white people who have seen the news, who live in these communities, and who sit at the desk next to us at work will often say nothing,' Maxine said. 'For the victim of racism, like the victim of loss, the silence is.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ddd080e | The thing is," said J. Karacehennem, whose last name was Turkish for Black Hell, "that we've spent like, what, two or three hundred years wrestling with existentialism, which really is just a way of asking, Why are we on this planet? Why are people here? Why do we lead our pointless lives? All the best philosophical and novelistic minds have tried to answer these questions and all the best philosophical and novelistic minds have failed to p.. | Jarett Kobek | ||
| 781f543 | When I was on the other side, my reply became, "I can't imagine either, but I have no choice." I" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f673e59 | Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.13 | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 58c5583 | This is the second worst moment of our lives. We lived through the first and we will live through this. It can only get better from here. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7bd52ac | As you start your career, you should be aware that men are often promoted based on potential, while women are promoted on past performance.1 You should also be aware that when men are successful, they are often better liked by both men and women, but when women are successful, they are liked less.2 I have asked audiences around the world to raise their hands if they've been told they were too aggressive at work. Time and again, a small frac.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| bc0a38f | You should also be aware of the internal barriers that we often impose on ourselves. Too many women sit on the side of the room when they should be sitting at the table. Too many women lower their voices when they should be speaking up. This is not our fault. We internalize messages that say it's wrong for us to be outspoken, aggressive, and as powerful as--or even more powerful than--men. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0ac9e9b | When it's safe to talk about mistakes, people are more likely to report errors and less likely to make them. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f83d27e | Even when we're in great distress, joy can still be found in moments we seize and moments we create. Cooking. Dancing. Hiking. Praying. Driving. Singing Billy Joel songs off-key. All of these can provide relief from pain. And when these moments add up, we find that they give us more than happiness; they also give us strength. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c051ec8 | caring means that when someone is hurting, you cannot imagine being anywhere else. This | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a08c708 | This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles... The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right. | glass-ceiling women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 1cd8cb4 | Mentorships often occur between people with common interests or backgrounds, which means men most often mentor men. This creates a shortage with woman mentors, and leaders need to be aware of this and encourage male leaders to widen their circle. | Natalie Thompson | ||
| 91072c6 | Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double bind," she said. "We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they should be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and makes us uncomfortable."7 If a woman is competent, she does not seem nice enough.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7dace0b | Ephron insisted, "It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands." | success work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 2e1f2e8 | Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 523046d | First, women must come across as being nice, concerned about others, and "appropriately" female. When women take a more instrumental approach ("This is what I want and deserve"), people react far more negatively. There is a saying, "Think globally, act locally." When negotiating, "Think personally, act communally." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8db3418 | Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8d9e790 | Adam has published five different studies demonstrating that meaningful work buffers against burnout. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7695423 | Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, is another person who I like. I like her sassy ass. I think Sheryl has an ungodly amount of cool | facebook-quotes sheryl-sandberg | Karl Wiggins |