"To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist."

-- Jessica Ennis

#Roots Quotes #Events Quotes #Helping Quotes

“To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.”
“A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.”
“During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women [chapter] in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.”
“At once, itâ€™s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just donâ€™t have the arrogance. Apparently, Iâ€™m too â€œvulnerableâ€ for ferocity. Iâ€™m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.”
“You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.”
“When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.”
“The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse
“If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.”

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