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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.

Barbara Walters

A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Competition Conversation
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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Dream Gains Helping Others
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Brainstorming Women
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Church Literature Superstitions
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Crazy Genius People
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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House Party People
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Achievement Boston Kind
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Benefits Office Thinking
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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Jobs Thinking Work
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Hands Should Have Want
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Complaining Fighting Jobs
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word

Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.

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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.

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