Sara Blakely Quotes

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Sara Blakely

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• I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Different
  • Women
  • You

• In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • You

• We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Education
  • Support

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Up
  • Road
  • Walk

• I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Rehearsing

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Test
  • Told

• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Up
  • May
  • Law

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Relationships

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Where

• People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Long
  • Success

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Great
  • Rather
  • Renaissance

• Even before the season starts, the fans look at the dates for the Madrid derbies. They all want to be there; they're big games.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Value
  • Justice

• Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Music
  • Business
  • Success

• Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Style
  • Paint
  • Feminine