I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Arianna HuffingtonRead
When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.
Interpretation
True understanding brings clarity and ease to life's challenges.
Arianna Huffington emphasizes that when we tap into our inner wisdom, strength, and understanding, we are better equipped to navigate life's complexities. This deeper connection allows us to face challenges with greater ease and confidence, suggesting that our attitudes and perceptions can significantly impact our experiences.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might say, 'As Arianna Huffington reminds us, when we truly connect to our strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.'
I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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