After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonRead
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
Interpretation
Dolly Parton expresses appreciation for every phase of her professional journey.
This quote highlights the importance of embracing all experiences in oneβs career, whether they are successes or challenges. By appreciating each phase, it suggests that a fulfilling career is formed not just through achievements but also through the lessons learned from different experiences throughout oneβs professional life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career growth and personal fulfillment.
After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.
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