Lois Wyse Quotes - Page 2

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• Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

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  Children, Remember, Forget

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• Nothing is more stylish than power.

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  Power, Stylish

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.15, Crown Business

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• I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

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  Daughter, Mother, Half

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.24, Harmony

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• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

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  Marriage, Long, Firsts

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• Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

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  Weekend, Power, Two

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• A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

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  Children, Winning, Views

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• For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

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  Dream, Mean, Childhood

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• Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

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  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Childhood

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

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  Grandma, Grandmother, Kissing

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• Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

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  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• Power always works from the corner office.

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  Office, Corners

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• Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

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  Power, Taste

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• Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

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  Long, Dull, Too Much

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.126, Crown Business

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• Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

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  Mistake, Work, May

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.160, Crown Business

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• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

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  Winning, Way, Failing

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• Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

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  Writing, Letters, Making Time

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• Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

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  Careers, Details, Incompetence

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

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  Food, Night, Years

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• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

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  Business, Moving, People

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

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  Men, Weakness, Taught

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• ... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

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  Office, World, Nine

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• Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

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  Persons, Repeats, Absolutely Nothing

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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