I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
Betty WhiteRead
You gotta use everything you possibly can!
Interpretation
Make the most of your resources and opportunities.
This quote by Betty White emphasizes the importance of utilizing all available resources and opportunities to achieve success. It encourages individuals to embrace creativity and resourcefulness in their endeavors, highlighting that every little bit helps when striving for excellence.
In practice
In a team meeting when discussing project planning.
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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