I’m such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man. Heather Langenkamp Read Quote
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to. Barbra Streisand Read Quote
A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don’t map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what’s called a ‘halo effect’ where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others. Peggy Johnson Read Quote
Why don’t women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious? Prue Leith Read Quote
I’ve never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven’t is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I’d made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out. Ryan North Read Quote
I didn’t want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love. Rafael Yglesias Read Quote
You have a lot of things to do when you’re out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind. Sunita Williams Read Quote
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
