Carolyn Wells Quotes

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

Carolyn Wells

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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Madeleine Albright
- Good
- Men
- Women
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

J. R. Smith
- Like
- Where
- Got
Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

Dakota Johnson
- Time
- Thinking
- Bad
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

Laila Ali
- People
- Up
- Mind
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

E. O. Wilson
- Religious
- Belief
- Form
I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

Rachel Bloom
- Up
- Work
- Bad