Liz Wheaton
https://www.goodreads.com/thelstatt
You want to grow old Like The Carters; Curing blindness & Building houses For The Poor; Making friends of those Who believe They must fight. You want to grow old Like The Carters Holding hands With someone You love & Riding bicycles
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“It’s sometimes surprising how people can open up when you demonstrate a willingness to listen to their stories with attentiveness and respect.”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
“Thou shalt not” is soon forgotten, but “Once upon a time” lasts forever.”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
“A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“And Petschek had asked—because he was genuinely puzzled by this—why so many people, Americans especially, seemed to feel that happiness was an entitlement. By dint of his own experiences as a refugee and a wanderer, Petschek found the notion to be strangely naive and immature—especially here at the bottom of a chasm whose ramparts offered such irrefutable testimony not only to the smallness of human affairs but also to the universe’s implacable indifference to those hopes and longings. Yet”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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