An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
TINA FEYDon’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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