Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

Helen Gurley Brown

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Energy

• We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Run
  • Systems
  • Fossil Fuels

• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Hair

• I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

  

  Janine Shepherd

• Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

  

  Eric Davis
  • God
  • Children
  • Kids

• Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Good
  • Work
  • Happy

• Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Mirror

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Book
  • Tired

• Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Thinking
  • Chill

• I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Secret