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“The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.”

Thinking World Should Done Whole Problem Felt Careers Finals Cups World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”

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Author:Joe Johnston

“Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.”

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Author:Dana Hill

“I think that's what goes wrong in a lot of people's careers, so many people are afraid to say, "This person has a problem" or "This person maybe shouldn't do this" because they're afraid of losing their jobs.”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.”

People Way Use Problem Success Energy Careers Buddhism Tired West Time And Energy Tired Of Working

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.”

Ifs Problem Success Answers Careers Cutting Buddhism More Money

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.”

Thinking Kind Littles Sometimes Problem Guy Girl Bits Careers Office Little Bit All Kinds Relate

Author:Piper Perabo

“The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.”

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Author:Storm Jameson

“I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.”

Said Done Problem Careers No Problem Nudity

Author:Lena Headey

“Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.”

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Author:K Callan

“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”

Two Problem Jobs Careers Roles Patterns Motherhood Involving Discontinuity

Author:Jessie Bernard

“With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.”

Children Persons Sometimes Problem Law Deals Careers Psychologist Ripped

Author:Timothy Murphy

“[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.”

“Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action.”

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Author:Grant Cardone

“There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.”

Hard Problem Decision Careers Right Now Luxury Hard Times Decision Making Making Decisions

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.”

Thinking Should Persons Different Problem Mother Stars Perfect Careers Wife Seeing Perfection Movie Star Perfect Wife

Author:Debora Spar

“There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say”

People Feelings Problem Force Hurt Careers Habit Projects Stealing Ruins Enterprise Persistent Hurt Feelings Recurring Personal Problems

Book:TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN

Source: TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN

“And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.”

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Author:Teresita Fernandez

“I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.”

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Author:Alice Foote MacDougall