Lois Wyse Quotes
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
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For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
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Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.
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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
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For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
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All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
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Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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Nothing is more stylish than power.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.
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Power always works from the corner office.
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Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
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