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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

Sheryl Sandberg

Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
SHERYL SANDBERG

Issues Life Lose Work
Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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Company Country Equality Home Inspirational Man True Word
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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Career Choice Life Limitation Way
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

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