Ivy Baker Priest famous quotes

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Two Sides #Careers #Design

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Hands #Long #Too Much

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Men #Hands #Long

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Children #Father #Sleep

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Thinking #People #Volunteer

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Doubt #Certain

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Self #Becoming #Emotion

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.
-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Responsibility #Finding Yourself #World

I don't believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of 'fairness' is what's troubling to me.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.