"I also think I was incredibly immature and inexperienced. I had little idea how to navigate the many network politics so allies became enemies and those responsible for helping and mentoring me to succeed in my new position had other agendas. At the end of the day I was young and dumb but super talented."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Cynthia Garrett

#Thinking Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of [the 20th] century was toward growing competition. [And] competition was unacceptableâ€¦It was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.”

Source : "Triumph of Conservatism". Book by Gabriel Kolko, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1963.
“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”
“The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I hear what many of you are saying: We donâ€™t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.”
“We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole”
“The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.”
“The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.”
“Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.”

Source : Jeff Cox (2015). “From Vines to Wines, 5th Edition: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine”, p.8, Storey Publishing

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