To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERSIt’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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