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| b2731c6 | Larry implored us to exert more control over our careers. He said McKinsey would never stop making demands on our time, so it was up to us to decide what we were willing to do. It was our responsibility to draw the line. We needed to determine how many hours we were willing to work in a day and how many nights we were willing to travel. If later on, the job did not work out, we would know that we had tried on our own terms. Counterintuitive.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ded0848 | almost three million Americans are caring for an adult with cancer, which takes an average of thirty-three hours a week. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5a789b2 | When we are no longer able to change a situation," psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, "we are challenged to change ourselves." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2e53a48 | When we look for joy, we often focus on the big moments. Graduating from school. Having a child. Getting a job. Being reunited with family. But happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 76227de | I understood the power of the prayer "Let me not die while I am still alive." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 85792ab | Sad White Babies with Mean Feminist Mommies. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c8b46ed | Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either. Equal opportunity is not equal unless everyone receives the encouragement that makes seizing those opportunities poss.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 488a146 | In companies, nonprofits, government, and the military, he finds that the more people believe their jobs help others, the less emotionally exhausted they feel at work and the less depressed they feel in life. And on days when people think they've had a meaningful impact on others at work, they feel more energized at home and more capable of dealing with difficult situations. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 88f2e66 | One way to lessen the sting of criticism is to evaluate how well you handle it. "After every low score you receive," law professors Doug Stone and Sheila Heen advise, you should "give yourself a 'second score' based on how you handle the first score....Even when you get an F for the situation itself, you can still earn an A+ for how you deal with it." The" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5635fe0 | Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d361343 | Both deaths are woven into the fabric of my life, but they're not what define me," she said. "Joy is very important to me. And I can't count on joy to come from my daughter or anyone else. It has to come from me. It is time to kick the shit out of Option C." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| fd6f828 | She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 61facb9 | From the moment we are born, boys and girls are treated differently. Parents tend to talk to girl babies more than boy babies. Mothers overestimate the crawling ability of their sons and underestimate the crawling ability of their daughters. Reflecting the belief that girls need to be helped more than boys, mothers often spend more time comforting and hugging infant girls and more time watching infant boys play by themselves. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e46b38d | There are several explanations offered as to why women have lower aspirations than men, including that women feel there is a lack of fit between themselves (their personal characteristics) and senior leadership positions, which are often characterized in highly masculine terms; women feel there are too many obstacles to overcome; women do not want to prioritize career over family; women place less important than do men on job characteristic.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0dd24d5 | 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."5" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6115490 | As Allen Rucker wrote about his paralysis, "I won't make your skin crawl by saying it's a 'blessing in disguise.' It's not a blessing and there is no disguise. But there are things to be gained and things to be lost, and on certain days, I'm not sure that the gains are not as great as, or even greater than, the inevitable losses." Tragedy" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0a25e1d | I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a577cf2 | Until we acknowledge it, the elephant is always there. By ignoring it, those who are grieving isolate themselves and those who could offer comfort create distance instead. Both sides need to reach out. Speaking with empathy and honesty is a good place to start. You can't wish the elephant away, but you can say, "I see it. I see you're suffering. And I care about you." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4019273 | Asking for input is not a sign of weakness but often the first step to finding a path forward. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0a18642 | Sheryl Sandberg: "It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."115 She couldn't be more right. You will not be as successful as you could be if you only like what you do and don't love it. Trite, perhaps, but true. Sheryl is also right in saying that combining passion and contribution is a luxury: not that it's expensive, but just rare. It's something that many people either can't .. | Eric Schmidt | ||
| 8ba4154 | In order to protect 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 | ||
| c8abf4c | 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.7 | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d36c79b | A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.14 In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. 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.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e7650a1 | Once again John and I kissed good-bye. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| e003f53 | Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 3763717 | I actually prefer Abby," she said. "I'm sorry?" "Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad." | magic-power | David Pogue | |
| a4e3f7b | Okay, Eliza. Now-you know-rise up! Think about those buffalos," Abby said. "Walking backward," added Ben. "Wearing diapers!" Ricky reminded her, giggling with glee. "I how to do it!" Eliza snapped." | buffalos magic-powers | David Pogue | |
| 59e262e | And for a moment, he was tempted. In that hesitation between drawing breath and speaking, part of him wondered what would happen if he shed the patterns of history and spoke about himself as a man, about the Joe Miller who he'd known briefly, about the responsibility they all shared to tear down the images they held of one another and find | James S.A. Corey | ||
| f9c1f06 | And for a moment, he was tempted. In that hesitation between drawing breath and speaking, part of him wondered what would happen if he shed the patterns of history and spoke about himself as a man, about the Joe Miller who he'd known briefly, about the responsibility they all shared to tear down the images they held of one another and find the genuine, flawed, conflicted people they actually were. It | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 94a4830 | I've claimed--so far sort of vaguely--that what makes televisions hegemony so resistant to critique by the new Fiction of Image is that TV has coopted the distinctive forms of the same cynical, irreverent, ironic, absurdist post-WWII literature that the new Imagists use as touchstones. The fact is that TV's re-use of postmodern cool has actually evolved as an inspired solution to the keep-Joe-at-once-alienated-from-and-part-of-the-million-e.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 1d87dd7 | This decline of literacy is accompanied by a rise in philistinism in America: a preference for the skillfully marketed and packaged product for the consumption of the mass man--the Top Ten on TV, NFL telecasts with the quite well-done Miller Lite and Mean Joe Green commercials--plus a few big commercial novels, whether the Harold Robbins novel in which sex figures second only to money, the Barbara Cartland novel in which sex becomes somethi.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 526dc6b | On Christmas Eve," Joe said, "when you were reading 'The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids' to Matty, Corrie and I were sitting on the stairs listening." Jo looked at Lilli, his face stern. "The bit I always remember best in that story is the bit when the wolf goes to the miller and tells him to throw flour over his paws to disguise them." He began to quote from the story: "'The miller thought to himself, "The wolf is going to harm someone," a.. | inhumanity mankind | Peter Rushforth | |
| c5409ca | CHRIS: The great roue! KELLER: What is that, roue? CHRIS: It's French. KELLER: Don't talk dirty. They laugh. CHRIS, to Ann: You ever meet a bigger ignoramus? KELLER: Well, somebody's got to make a living. ANN, as they laugh: That's telling him. KELLER: I don't know, everybody's gettin' so Goddam educated in this country there'll be nobody to take away the garbage. They laugh. It's gettin' so the only dumb ones left are the bosses. ANN: You'.. | Arthur Miller | ||
| ce63c3d | As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end of its own resources, for the power to love derives purely and solely from the knowledge that one is already loved in return. | Mike Mason | ||
| 8adc0c0 | If God accepts us at all, He accepts us wholeheartedly, and He covers us completely with the spotless robe of righteousness. This robe of divine acceptance does not come in gray, but only in dazzling white, and one either has the robe or not. One is either righteous or wicked. And anyone who is wicked can have that status quickly amended by a trip to the cross. | Mike Mason | ||
| 821c158 | in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness... | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 794eb35 | The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 3f4d77c | The perfect life, the perfect lie ... is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances. I.. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 2055f14 | Then he just let it ring, the phone pressed to his head like a pistol, her picture in his hands. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| e9eaae6 | VARANASI TRAFFIC is shambolic. It's a humbling reminder that the British drive on the left side of the road and we (Indians) drive on what's left of the road. "The traffic is not terrible at all," wrote novelist Geoff Dyer. "It is beyond any idea of terribleness. It is beyond any idea of traffic." | Guru Madhavan | ||
| 34f644a | Mingus had always known that that was what the blues was: music played to the dead, calling them back, showing them the way back to the living. Now he realized part of the blues was the opposite of that: the desire to be dead yourself, a way of helping the living find the dead. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| a760605 | Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 0b2127a | It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep. | Geoff Dyer | ||
| 121732b | Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he'd never seen one before. | Geoff Dyer |