Work Quotes - Page 35

• They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

  Emil Ruder

  Book, Ideas, Computer

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• I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Believe, Mind, Roles

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• Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Team, Makeup

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

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• We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Women, Years

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• In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Women, Years

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• I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Careers, Helping

  "Sheryl Sandberg: 'No one can have it all'". Interview with Joanna Barsh, alumni.mckinsey.com. April 24, 2013.

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• When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Smart, Thinking

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

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• I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Careers, People

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• Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Careers, Decisions You Make

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• The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Careers, Tables

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• I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Women, Real, Technology

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

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• I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Women, Years

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

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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, Women, Careers

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

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• I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Teacher, Real

  "'Now Is Our Time'". Harvard Business Review interview, hbr.org. April 2013.

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• Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

  J. Richard Clarke

  Average, Worry, Genius

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• Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

  Robert Grudin

  Rewards, Bread, Making Money

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I don't need the money, I don't work.

  James Spader

  Money, Needs, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Can Do

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• Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Men, Class

  'Green Grow the Rashes' (1787)

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Teaching, Data

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Men, Pioneers

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

  Aaliyah

  Jobs, Heart, Soul

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• I know people dont think I work.

  Douglas Wilson

  Thinking, People, Knows

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• I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.

  Dick York

  Pain, Coffee, Exercise

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