"I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most."

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Source : "How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design" by Jessica Guynn, articles.latimes.com. January 2, 2011.

Marissa Mayer

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.”
“I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.”
“Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.”
“When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.”
“In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.”
“We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.”
“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”
“I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.”

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