“Jill also sounds incompetent … and it says something that that’s the least of the problems here.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“Here’s the thing that I wish someone would have told me a long time ago: Failure is part of it.”— Emma Chapman, abeautifulmess.com
“But you don’t know what you can do until you try it. And trying is the reason you’re here.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“All this is to say: it is not to late to show up for your life. You can be an activist and revolutionary and writer all at once. You can have love. You can give the world the most you have in you. You can start now.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“All MONEY AIN'T GOOD MONEY! YOU shouldn't expect every big offer in front of you! Be wise & don't rush & ask questions before making a decision.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“Dream about it like a child, fight for it like a grown up. Every single day.”— Claude Kelly, twitter.com
“I don't *feel* like a late bloomer, but others have called me that. I published my first essay at 30, when I had a 3yo and a baby and no time, and before that I felt like a lot of people had written me off. But that's just when I figured out what I wanted to say. (My birth father published his first…”— Nicole Chung, twitter.com
“When life gives you lemons, plant the lemon seeds. Grow lemon trees. Pick the lemons from the trees. Now you have more lemons. Accumulate those useless lemons. More. More lemons. Accumulate all those useless lemons just to spite life for giving them to you in the first place.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“There have so been many things in my life that didn't work out the way I thought I wanted to, that, looking back, I am very grateful did not happen. Different things await you. Keep going. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“If you don't keep making and creating and doing, you are giving the world less to reject you for, yes, but eventually there will nothing for anyone to say yes to. Your only job is to keep going. Your only job is to keep going. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“You have value as precisely as who you are right now. Figure out what that value is rather than faking another value.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“I think we romanticize our careers and origin stories in the same way we romanticize love, and I think we have to stop having that kind of language around our lives and professional lives. It makes you think that if you don’t know it, you can’t do it. It’s important to actually stumble around a lot.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”— Stephen Covey, forbes.com
“Bob: 'What do you do?' Charlotte: 'I'm not sure yet, actually.'”— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com
“Respectable and elite careers are of no interest to the Old Soul who is much too tired to join in with the ‘my house is bigger than your house’ games of society. If the Old Soul has to work, any job will usually do. It's very uncommon to find Old Souls in prestigious careers, unless they have some h…”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“I think when you start out in your career, you think that everything is fair, and you are getting equal opportunities. And as you move up higher in the ranks, you realize that actually there are fewer positions and it’s more competitive and it’s harder to get those opportunities. And then you reach…”— Ellen Pao, blogs.wsj.com