Anita Borg Quotes
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
