"What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others."

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Source : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

Beverly Engel

#Being Yourself Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
“In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.”
“When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.”
“We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.”
“Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.”
“The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.”
“Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.”
“Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever”

Source : "Colbert Grills Eric Schmidt On Privacy, ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2010.

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