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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2718e7e | letting the other side make the first offer is often crucial to achieving favorable terms. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9b9a100 | In that first deal, I said too much. This was not a shock to anyone who knows me. Once I identified this weakness, I sought help to correct it. I turned to Maureen Taylor, a communications coach, who gave me an assignment. She told me that for one week I couldn't give my opinion unless asked. It was one of the longest weeks of my life. If | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c854c41 | One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar--just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck out. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e9a7631 | At the time, I didn't know how to respond. Now I would say yes. I made this my "thing" because we need to disrupt the status quo. Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of women who entered corporate America could do; in some cases, it might still be the safest path. But this strategy is not paying off for women as a group. Instead, we need to speak out, identify the barriers that are holding women back, and fi.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 1cde592 | By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her. | perspective stereotypes women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 52b3e48 | Think personally, act communally. | women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 626ca6b | A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls "relentlessly pleasant" | work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| bba267a | He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right. | women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| a28d647 | Instead, I want to ask you: What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it? | work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| e66809b | As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do. | work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 683c3a4 | there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."13 Virginia Rometty, IBM's first female CEO, told the" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| cd1ae7b | And for all the progress, there is still societal pressure for women to keep an eye on marriage from a young age. When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a "good man" before they are all taken. I followed their advice and throughout college, I vetted every date as a potential husband (which, trust me, is a .. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c52e60a | When I was graduating, my thesis advisor, Larry Summers, suggested that I apply for international fellowships. I rejected the idea on the grounds that a foreign country was not a likely place to turn a date into a husband. Instead, I moved to Washington, D.C., which was full of eligible men. It worked. My first year out of college, I met a man who was not just eligible, but also wonderful, so I married him. I was twenty-four and convinced t.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f6c47a2 | The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 92190c8 | Like me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Women and Foreign Policy Program, was encouraged to prioritize marriage over career. As she described in The Atlantic, "When I was 27, I received a posh fellowship to travel to Germany to learn German and work at the Wall Street Journal. ... It was an incredible opportunity for a 20-something by any objective standard, and I knew it would help prepare me for.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8322eb8 | Even worse, the messages sent to girls can move beyond encouraging superficial traits and veer into explicitly discouraging leadership. When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend. As someone who was called this for much of my childhood, I know that it is not a compliment. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a8d6ae2 | Ask a man to explain his success and he will typically credit his own innate qualities and skills. Ask a woman the same question and she will attribute her success to external factors, insisting she did well because she "worked really hard," or "got lucky," or "had help from others." Men and women also differ when it comes to explaining failure. When a man fails, he points to factors like "didn't study enough" or "not interested in the subj.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9d84fcb | Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional--or worse, sometimes even a negative--for women. "She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture. 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.".. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 71e385d | 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 | ||
| 3381c9d | As Sharon Poczter, professor of economics at Cornell, explains, "The antiquated rhetoric of 'having it all' disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are dealing with the constrained optimization that is life, attempting to maximize our utility based on parameters like career, kids, relationships, etc., doing our best to allocate the resource of time. Due to the scarcity of this resource, therefo.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a1cff92 | When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsurprising because clearly we do. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c2b8c96 | Each partner needs to be in charge of specific activities or it becomes too easy for one to feel like he's doing a favor instead of doing his part. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4f2e8cc | Sit at the table, seek challenges and lean in. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4c1a06d | Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position. | leadership | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| e776487 | Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 175112a | Being forthright led to opportunity. Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid sacrifice. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ec3d7c1 | The number of women supporting families on their own is increasing quickly; between 1973 and 2006, the proportion of families headed by a single mother grew from one in ten to one in five.31 | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f42711b | feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes"--the" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2e79f70 | Statements of opinion are always more constructive in the first person "I" form. Compare these two statements: "You never take my suggestions seriously" and "I feel frustrated that you have not responded to my last four e-mails, which leads me to believe that my suggestions are not that important to you. Is that so?" The former can elicit a quick and defensive "That's not true!" The latter is much harder to deny. One" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c1d0ae9 | But that was thirteen years ago. Today, the creme de la creme flock to younger, more vibrant companies, in both entry-level and much higher positions. The brightest students tend to not want to work for large companies anymore, and McKinsey is a large company. In the 1970s every smart student received an offer from Arthur Andersen, then about ten thousand strong. The more adventurous went to McKinsey, which employed a paltry four hundred by.. | Duff McDonald | ||
| 62f84b9 | connections that the women made were not extended to him.28 Time and | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d0802ec | feminism wasn't supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competitions over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free--to give us not only choices but the ability to make these choices without constantly feeling that we'd somehow gotten it wrong."20" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d376458 | Every social movement struggles with dissension within its ranks, in part because advocates are passionate and unlikely to agree on every position and solution. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8432ad3 | Use e.g. when you mean "for example": "I like junk food--e.g., Doritos and Pringles." (How to remember: "For eg-zample.") Use i.e. when you mean "in other words": "He ate Doritos and Pringles--i.e., junk food." (How to remember: "in other words.")" | David Pogue | ||
| e824eb3 | Whatever your computer problem, somebody else has had it before. And you can find the solution with Google. Every single time! Here are some examples of what you can type: * page numbers won't print in Microsoft Word * can't turn off gridlines in Photoshop * how do I change ink cartridge in Canon Pixma iP7220 * Apple TV can't connect to iPad * how do I delete photos from galaxy s4 phone Bonus tip: Add "solved" to your query, like this: "ipa.. | David Pogue | ||
| b1f7401 | The keystroke to open the Preferences dialog box in every Apple program -- Mail, Safari, iMovie, Photos, TextEdit, Preview, and on and on -- is always the same: -comma. Better yet, that standard is catching on in other apps, too, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. | David Pogue | ||
| 8bc2d2f | It's not a missile, it's a bullet. | Joss Whedon & John Cassaday | ||
| b58b646 | Senator Hillary Clinton had opposed the surge. So, too, had Senator Joe Biden. The "surge," he predicted, stood "zero" chance of success. "Victory is no longer an option," | Judith Miller | ||
| 7e9a937 | And you know, while I'm at it, I don't care what arcane passage you pull out of the Old Testament and run through your Jeremiah-begat-Jedediah Decoder Ring, one of the definitive tenets of Christianity is tolerance. Trust me, there's no version of the Bible that says Love thy neighbor unless he's a Peter Allen fan. Any supposedly Christian doctrine must have at the core a belief in the concept of unqualified love for your fellow man. Unless.. | Dennis Miller | ||
| 934baf8 | Owen speaks in all caps throughout the story) "SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY - NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, BUT NOT OLD EITHER; A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMED. AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING - I THINK SHE WANTED TO BE GOOD. LOOK AT THE MEN IN HER LIFE - JOE DIMAGGIO, ARTHUR MILLER, MAYBE THE KENNEDYS. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY SEEM. LOOK AT HOW DESIREABLE SHE WAS! THAT'S WHAT.. | John Irving | ||
| 05e9eb8 | The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, onto the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgement. --THE AMERICAN JOE MILLER'S JEST BOOK S | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b5c9d0d | Likewise, Whole Foods has built an enormous industry helping customers avoid the consequences of overly processed foods, and more recently Trader Joe's has come along to help customers avoid the consequences of Whole Foods' prices. | Donald Miller | ||
| 9761a48 | There was once a man named Joe... Joe was insecure because he had no ears. Joe couldn't hear a goddamn peep. And so he worked hard and saved up some money until eventually he was able to buy himself a pair of ears. And, for the first time in his life, he was able to hear the music of Beethoven and rejoice in the sound of a child's laughter. So Joe was no longer insecure about not having ears... although now he's a little insecure about his .. | insecurity insecurity-quotes joke problems-in-life | David Michael Miller | |
| bad9151 | The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, onto the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgement. --THE AMERICAN JOE MILLER'S JEST BOOK | Neil Gaiman |