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Ruth Porat Quotes

When I started, there were very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like, when I looked up, I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

Ruth Porat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

Topics

Women Me Important Say Want Up

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Jo Brand

Good People Bad Kind Seen Along

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

Together Job Reading Think Personal

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

Family Father Heart Health History

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

Andrew Whitworth

Good Perfection You Find Always Get

My favorite thing that I can do with my iPhone is dictate a letter.

Robert Picardo

I Can iPhone Favorite Letter Thing

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

Life Nature Sports Fishing Yourself

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

Ann Beattie

Love Music Culture People Think Say

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.

Michael Korda

Life Home Growing Up My Life Growing

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

Miranda Kerr

Myself Way Relaxed Would Able

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

Jaromir Jagr

Tired Game You Body Down Play

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Douglas Coupland

Bed Vampire Up Keep Going Hours

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

Experience Space Me Looking Earth