Gruenfeld Quotes & Sayings

You learn the old ways, keep what you need, and discard the rest in order to become yourself. — Nancy Ring

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success: "Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double blind," she said. "We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they *should* be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and makes us uncomfortable. — Sheryl Sandberg

The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn't forget terror. — Kate Griffin

At first the team's primary goal was helping Jewish families escape the Third Reich. Together, they helped more than three hundred families pass through Belgium. Some went to England, and some made it to Canada. Jacob and his new friends provided safe houses, basic provisions, clothes, and false documents along the way. Once the invasion occurred, however, Maurice Tulek redirected them from rescuing Jews to other tasks considered more vital to the Allies. — Joel C. Rosenberg

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day. — Jerry Seinfeld

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. — Laurence Housman

The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced. — Abraham Verghese

Don't be afraid to be what you are, cause all you can be is you. — The Freedom Writers

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. — Scott Westerfeld

I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And then our Mum and Dad were in love and they were truly dry-stone strong and durable and people speak of ease and joy and spontaneity and the fact that their two smells became one smell, our smell. Us. — Max Porter

This automatic feedback is another reason extreme athletes have found flow so frequently, but what if we're interested in pulling this trigger without help from the laws of physics? No mystery here. Tighten feedback loops. Put mechanisms in place so attention doesn't have to wander. Ask for more input. How much input? Well, forget quarterly reviews. Think daily reviews. Studies have found that in professions with less direct feedback loops - stock analysis, psychiatry, and medicine - even the best get worse over time. — Steven Kotler

I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best. — Alanis Morissette

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music. — Alex Gonzaga