We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and... →
Sheryl Sandberg
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people... →
Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in... →
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and... →
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young... →
Emeli Sande
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I... →
Michael Sandel