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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house. ”
Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%. ”
When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them. ”
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them. ”
We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is. ”
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be. ”
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. ”
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. ”
It's my job, to create a fantasy. ”
I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well. ”