Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let's stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

WomenMenPracticePeopleChoices

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Jim Yong Kim

PeopleChallengesOrganizationWorld

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

WorkYouInvestmentActorRiskMore

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Andrea Riseborough

WorkThinkHardDifferentI Think

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

PurposeAcceptProjectSomething

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

John Sandford

TimeTogetherPeopleLookingSeeing

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

MF Doom

EyeDoingCanvasStageWhateverUp

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Robbie Williams

LifeMy LifeNeverFistAnybody

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

Mary Roach

WorkPeopleResearchInterestingSex

Soaps have a schedule where you have to be done in 15 minutes. With an hour show, there's no way to get off schedule. On a movie, it's a lot easier to go back and reshoot scenes. I wasn't used to that at all... taking the time to really make each scene as good as it can be, which you can't do on soaps.

Lucy Deakins

GoodTimeYouBackGoDone

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

Josh Cooke

ImaginationTrainingAmazingThink

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John

BusinessDecisionsBadFirstMade

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

BelievePlanNothingAlwaysHappens

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