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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.

Sheryl Sandberg

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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Appearance Choice Weird
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
When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
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
If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Goodness Help Job Men Women
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Career Work
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Chance Inspirational Life Motivational Opportunity Yourself
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation

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