"You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything."

-- Francine Prose

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“What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.”
“For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.”
“It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.”
“In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.”
“Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.”
“Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.”
“To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.”
“And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.”

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.

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