Jennifer Granholm Quotes

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

Jennifer Granholm

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Fly
  • Sell
  • Acid

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Need
  • Flying

• I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

  

  Kathy Ireland

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

  

  Aristotle
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Fear
  • Practice
  • Worry

• Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Women
  • Risk
  • Broken