Melanne Verveer famous quotes

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We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Giving Up #Opportunity #Tire
A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Country #Leaving #Progress
No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Country #People #Half
One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Fun #Would Be #Clubs
My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Men #Thinking #Way
The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.
-- Melanne Verveer

#Children #Quality #Bombs

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.
Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

Melanne Verveer famous quotes

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