Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes
I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
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When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
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I don't care what they do. I've said what I had to say about it. I'm done with it.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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Having a conversation with you is like a Martian talking to a Fungo.
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As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
