"There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Peter Beinart

#Ambition Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Mastering – or, if you prefer, integrating – the psyche is the work of a lifetime….This mastery is not holding the psyche in rigid subjugation (which is impossible in any case), nor is it a matter of having a maniacally religious ego lording it over the emotions and the body. Rather, it is being centered in the still, small voice that is the true 'I' of the spirit.”

Source : Richard Smoley (2002). “Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition”, p.114, Shambhala Publications
“I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.”
“A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.”
“Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.”
“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. Â And the cost is more than I can bear.”
“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.35, Macmillan
“Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.”
“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”

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