Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that
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You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly.
It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.
This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. "You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara." Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with ot…
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better…
If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?
Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.
Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.