Dana > Dana's Quotes

“There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

“Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

“. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable For Managers

“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. Find new ways to see. Never expect a silver bullet. Get your hands dirty. Listen with empathy and overcommunicate with transparency. Tell your story, refusing to let others define you. Use authentic experiences to inspire. Stick to your values, they are your foundation. Hold people accountable, but give them the tools to succeed. Make the tough choices; it's how you execute that counts. Be decisive in times of crisis. Be nimble. Find truth in trials and lessons in mistakes. Be responsible for what you see, hear, and do. Believe.”
― Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

“Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.”
― Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Done is better than perfect.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I didn't trust people who forgot to eat.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love

“Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“You guys need to get your act together, because if you don't, then the board's going to have to step in and resolve the issue," the directors warned them. "It would be better if you could work together to define your roles in a complementary way and leverage your strengths. You better give that a real hard try.”
― Bryce G. Hoffman, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

“You have to expect the unexpected, and you have to deal with it." he said. "Whining is not a plan. Wallowing is not a plan. We have a plan, and if we need to adjust it, we will".”
― Bryce G. Hoffman, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

“I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.”
― Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

“When we set out to change things, we don't pay enough attention to what we want to leave unchanged.”
― Dietrich Dörner, The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations