Sara Blakely Quotes
Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
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Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
