"The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Settling Quotes

“I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.”
“Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised by the loving couples targeted by Virginia's Marriage Laws betrays that interest. E. S.-T. [the 15-year-old daughter of two of the plaintiffs], like the thousands of children being raised by same-sex couples, is needlessly deprived of the protection, the stability, the recognition and the legitimacy that marriage conveys....”

Source : "Actor Eddie Murphy facing divorce". news.bbc.co.uk. August 6, 2005.
“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
“Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.”
“I cherish my work and all of my readers.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.”
“When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.”

Source : Source: www.680news.com

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