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“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
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“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”
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“The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader.”
― Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
― Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
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