Bette Midler Quotes

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

We have to learn how to manage expectations.

I think that, as a manager and as a player, you must always be motivated.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

You don't want to put competitiveness and emotion away, so you learn to play with it. You learn to use it for your team.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.

How my achievements mock me!

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.

It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.