Leila Janah Quotes
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.Leila Janah
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
Kate Micucci -
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin -
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
Patricia Millett -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes -
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
Karl Abraham -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge -
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Frances Wright
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
Pallam Raju -
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
Carine Roitfeld -
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
Warren Spahn -
I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
Omari Hardwick
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova -
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
Peter Hain -
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley -
Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.
Jason Kander -
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
Heather Watts -
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
Leila Janah