Jennifer > Jennifer's Quotes

“One plus one equals both.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.”
― Bob Fosse

“A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it. As a #GIRLBOSS, you take control and accept responsibility. You're a fighter- you know when to throw punches and when to roll with them. Sometimes you break the rules, sometimes you follow them, but always on your terms. You know where you're going, but can't do it without having some fun along the way. You value honesty over perfection. You ask questions. You take your life seriously, but you don't take yourself too seriously. You're going to take over the world, and change it in the process. You're a badass.”
― Sophia Amoruso, #Girlboss

“[Performance with purpose is] basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss costs to society. We believe that the new future is public-private partnerships, where companies feel responsible for society at large.”
― Indra Nooyi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Someone broke into my car last night. Nothing worth taking, car is actually less of a mess now. I should schedule this monthly.”
― Tony Hsieh

“One study by the Forum Corporation in Boston showed that 70 percent of customers leave because of poor service and only 15 percent because of price or product quality.”
― Stephen Spinelli Jr.

“We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers