"When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence."

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Source : "Cisco CTO: Women Need To Break Down Walls In The Male-Dominated Tech Industry" by Kevin McLaughlin, www.businessinsider.com. June 20, 2013.

Padmasree Warrior

#Jobs Quotes #Passion Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes

“And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.”
“Too marvelous for words.”

Source : Song: Too Marvelous For Words
“They donâ€™t listen to me, they donâ€™t hear me, they donâ€™t see me.”
“My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.”
“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldnâ€™t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldnâ€™t care, because none of them would ever own himâ€”own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
“Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.”
“When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.”

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