Jennifer Hyman Quotes

In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Karma

• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • House
  • Really
  • Many

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Choices
  • Happen
  • Fact

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Future
  • Name
  • Jewelry

• I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • World
  • Friends
  • College

• I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Spirit
  • Mirror
  • Mirrors

• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Partner