Juanita M. Kreps quotes
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“I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man”
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“The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.”
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“One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.”
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“... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.”
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“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
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“The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.”
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“La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.”
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“To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.”
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“Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.”
Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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