"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

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Source : "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

Indira Gandhi

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“The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.”
“We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.”
“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”
“I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.”
“The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.”
“In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.”
“Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.”
“I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.”

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