Sharon Lechter quotes

“Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.”
-- Sharon Lechter

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“If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.”
-- Sharon Lechter

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“Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.”
-- Sharon Lechter

Source : Sharon Lechter (2014). “Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance”, p.27, Penguin

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“Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.”
-- Sharon Lechter

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Lechter from Oct 04, 2013

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“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”

Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”

“The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”

“Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.”

“I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.”

“My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.”

“Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.”