Leaning In Quotes - Page 2

• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Wall, Humorous

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Leader, Important, Quality

  "Cisco Tech Chief Outlines The Advantages Of Being A Woman In Tech". Interview With Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Ignorance, Painful, Greater

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.92, Knopf

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• I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Good People, Systems Thinking, Good Person

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• How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Motivational, Change, Embrace

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• It's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. One of the things I tell people these days is that 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.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Opportunity, People, Perfect

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• What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Dream, Thinking

  "Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on what makes women succeed". Interview with Pattie Sellers, fortune.com. October 05, 2011.

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• When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Husband, Divorce

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.127, Knopf

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Sexy, Husband, Crazy

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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  In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Badass, Leader, Female

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.182, Knopf

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• 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.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Opportunity, Perfect, Leader

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.44, Knopf

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Sexy, Husband

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Successful, Men, People

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.49, Knopf

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• Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Business

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.133, Knopf

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• The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

  John Green

  Kissing, Rejection, Asking

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.75, Penguin

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• Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rooms, Pausing, Chairs

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1676, Simon and Schuster

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• I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.

  Rupert Grint

  Brother, Growing Up, Character

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• Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.

  Serena Williams

  Girl, Dad, Role Models

  Twitter post from Mar 05, 2015

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• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Animal, Voice, Hair

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• There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Example, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Love You, Eye

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• I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Kissing, I Love You Too

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