I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERSBeing a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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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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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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