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The Advice I Would Give To My Younger Self Is Very, Very Simple: Stop Burning The Candle At Both Ends And Renew Your Estranged Relationship With Sleep. You Will Be More Productive, More Effective, More Creative, And More Likely To Enjoy Your Life.

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Arianna Huffington

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The Advice I Would Give To My Younger Self Is Very, Very Simple: Stop Burning The Candle At Both Ends And Renew Your Estranged Relationship With Sleep. You Will Be More Productive, More Effective, More Creative, And More Likely To Enjoy Your Life.

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Inspiring Business

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Pursuit Of Happiness

You Need To Be Able To Nurture Yourself In Order To Be A Good Mother, Good At Your Job, Good At Servicing Your Community. I Really Believe Women Can Do It All, But They Can't Do It All At The Expense Of Their Health, Their Sleep, And Their Sense Of Well-being.

You Can Do Not Just Twice As Much But 200 Times As Much When You Have A Good Partner.

The Economic Game Is Not Supposed To Be Rigged Like Some Shady Ring Toss On A Carnival Midway.

It's Important To Remember That The Future Of Quality Journalism Is Not Dependent On The Future Of Newspapers. The Discussion Needs To Move From "how Do We Save Newspapers?" To "how Do We Save And Strengthen Journalism?" - However It Is Delivered.

Life Is A Dance Between Making It Happen And Letting It Happen.

Making Money And Doing Good In The World Are Not Mutually Exclusive.

We Need To Accept That We Won't Always Make The Right Decisions, That We'll Screw Up Royally Sometimes - Understanding That Failure Is Not The Opposite Of Success, It's Part Of Success.

What Women's Lib Might Achieve If Their 'consciousness Raising' - Or In Plain English, Brainwashing- Campaign Succeeds Is A Society Whose Members Have Identical Roles But Are Perpetually At War With Themselves; A Society Of Males Made Neurotic By Suppressed Masculinity, Of Females Made Miserable By Having Masculine Roles Thrust Upon Them That Contradict Their Feminine Impulses.

At The Moment, Our Society’s Notion Of Success Is Largely Composed Of Two Parts: Money And Power. But It’s Time For A Third Metric, Beyond Money And Power - One Founded On Well-being, Wisdom, Our Ability To Wonder, And To Give Back.

In Life, The Things That Go Wrong Are Often The Very Things That Lead To Other Things Going Right.

Given The Multiple Crises We Are Living Through, Investigative Journalism Is All The More Important.

Moving Ourselves To The Background And Others To The Foreground Is Evidence That The (spiritual) Search Is Achieving Its Purpose.

How Could Someone With A Renowned Ability To Inspire, Communicate Complex Ideas, And Connect With Voters Find Himself In This Position? The President [barack Obama], Though A Dedicated Student Of History, Has Seemingly Failed To Learn The Lesson Of Our Nation's Most Significant Political Confrontations: They've Required Single-minded Determination, And The Willingness To Battle Until The Fight Was Won.

It's Time To Sleep Your Way To The Top.

For Too Long, Reporters For The Big Media Outlets Have Been Fixated On Novelty, Always Moving Too Quickly Onto The Next Big Score Or The Next Hot Get. Paradoxically, In These Days Of Instant Communication And Sixty-minute News Cycles, It's Actually Easier To Miss Information We Might Otherwise Pay Attention To. That's Why We Need Stories To Be Covered And Re-covered Until They Filter Up Enough To Become Part Of The Cultural Bloodstream.

What's The Third Metric Beyond Money And Power? I Think It's A Combination Of Wellbeing And Wisdom. Because The Problem Also With Defining Success Just In Terms Of Money And Power Means That People Feel That They Have To Work Around The Clock, Burn Out, And The Result Is People Making Terrible Decisions.

Trying To Be Supermom Is As Futile As Trying To Be Perfect Mom. Not Going To Happen.

I Was Lucky In That I Had A Mother That Was Full Of This Colloquial Wisdom And She Used To Say To Me 'you Know, Failure Is Not The Opposite Of Success, It's The Stepping Stone To Success. There Is Nobody Who Has Not Failed Along The Way.' So I Think Its Very Important For Young Women, Especially As They Are Starting In Life, To Recognize That Because Otherwise, They Only See People's Success. So, When I Speak, I Speak Of My Failures.

There's No Love More Intense Than The Love We Have For Our Kids - And Where There Is Intense Love, There Is Also Intense Fear Lurking Beneath The Surface.

Learning To Code Is Useful No Matter What Your Career Ambitions Are.

Paul Ryan Has Become A Doormat...and He's Become This Little Person Who Is Following Romney Around.

I'm Passionate. I Find If I Really Believe Something, I Want To Put My Entire Being Behind It.

Having Too Much Is Never Enough.

Meditation, Yoga, And Walks Are All Ways To Regulate Our Stress And Reconnect.

Living In A State Of Gratitude Is The Gateway To Grace.

Hollywood Has Gone From The Capital Of Conspicuous Consumption To The Cutting Edge Of Conspicuous Conservation.

Market Forces Have No Intrinsically Moral Direction, Which Is Why, Before He Wrote The Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith Wrote The Theory Of Moral Sentiments. Ethics Should Precede Economics. But It Doesn't Have To. . . . We Know This Because We've Seen The Results Of Capitalism Without Conscience: The Pollution Of The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink, And The Food We Eat; The Endangerment Of Workers; And The Sale Of Dangerous Products - From Cars To Toys To Drugs. All In Pursuit Of Ever-greater Profits.

Fearlessness Is Not The Absence Of Fear. It's The Mastery Of Fear. It's About Getting Up One More Time Than We Fall Down.

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