“Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.” WayYearsSometimesMotherWifeHeardCriticismMalesComplainingWorriedColleaguesReservations Author:Jill Abramson
“The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.” PeopleIfsWayFactsMovingWillingRiversSellsProfitComplainingMaking MoneyPolish Author:Ian MacKaye
“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.” WayHandsDarkDestinyCuttingImagineMysteryDutyTrackSolveComplainingImagine ThatRoyalOur DestinyRiddleIntricateRespectabilityBewilderedDevouringHigh RoadSphinx Book:The Secret Doctrine Source: The Secret Doctrine
“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.” IfsWayTryingI CanTwoDoneDiesCan DoActingSecurityAmountTomorrowComplainingHardestThis LifeLiving My LifeHardest Thing Author:Yul Vazquez