Quotes by Mignon Mclaughlin - Page 8

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
Mignon Mclaughlin / Journalist
Giving
People
Return
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People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
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Affair
People
Want
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Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
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Beautiful
Feminist
Intelligent
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An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
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Keys
Typewriters
Writing
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Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
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Lying
Merit
Telling The Truth
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If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
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Women
Husband
Laughing
Married
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Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
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Country
Patriot
Proud
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If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
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Three
Tomorrow
Yesterday
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It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
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Broken
Mirrors
Spring
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
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Men
Each Day
Fire
Glad
Mars
Paper
Smoking
Fire Man Day
Dozens
Explain
Mouth
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It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
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Riding
Talent
Wire
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There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
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Children
Night
Writing
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Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
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Funny
Women
Hands
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The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.
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Arms
Faults
Shapes
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No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
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Love
Infatuation
Matter
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I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.
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Life
Done
Tongue
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There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
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Electrical
Psychology
Units
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
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Anniversary
Love
Marriage
Smile
True Love
Couple
Divorce
Married
List
Reasons
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The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.
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Psychology
Two
Years
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Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
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Country
Doubt
Thinking
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One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
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Pet
One Day
Warning
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Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
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Bearable
Lost
Nostalgia
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The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
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Analysts
Neurotic
Psychiatry
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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
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Father
Mean
Mother
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Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
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Each Day
Might
Television
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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Force
Most Powerful
Paid
Powerful
Universe
Albert
Answered
Considered
Asked
Compound
Einstein
Powerful Force
Price
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Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
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Running
Justice
People
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No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
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Christmas
Smile
Children
Giving
Ponies
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A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
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Anxiety
Doctors
Mean
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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Sports
Fun
Husband
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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
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Family
Being Thankful
Bitterness
Understanding
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