Brigid Schulte Quotes

#1. The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

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#2. We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. - Aristotle

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#3. The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn't guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation,

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#4. I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

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#5. It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

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#6. The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes "does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live."6

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#7. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

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#8. Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be.

Kat Graham

#9. The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

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#10. You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Robert Galbraith

#11. At such times we are certainly not at our best but we are undeniably at our most human - utterly vulnerable, naked and laid open, a mess. Whenever

Tim Kreider

#12. Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health - whether they're more likely to be depressed, anxious, smoke cigarettes, or overeat - than any other measure.

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#13. But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Jack Nance

#14. I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

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#15. What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

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#16. I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.

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#17. Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

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#18. Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

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#19. What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.

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#20. News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

Patricia C. Wrede

#21. As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

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#22. A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

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#23. I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.

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#24. Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Elizabeth Berg

#25. The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.

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#26. Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

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#27. The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Theodore Roosevelt

#28. Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#29. Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

Anton Chekhov

#30. I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.

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#31. It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#32. As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

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#33. In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Neil Peart

#34. But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

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#35. The stuff of life never ends. That is life. You will never clear your plate so you can finally allow yourself to get to the good stuff. So you have to decide. What do you want to accomplish in this life?

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