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"Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships."
"Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself."
"The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out."
"We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe."
"For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive."
"I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism)."
"Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism."
"Don't miss the moment. It's all we have"
"What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides."
"Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect."
"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."
"Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose."
"We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments."
"Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives."
"For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list."
"Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities."
"Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path."
"You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being."
"I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation."
"Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one."