"Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone."

-- Marissa Mayer

#Giving Up Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Roles Quotes

“My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctorâ€™s office and make people sick.”
“One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.”

Source : Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House
“The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.”
“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”
“And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.”
“One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.”

Source : "Pirates 4 Interview: Sam Claflin". Interview with Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. May 18, 2011.

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