A Quote by Molly Bloom

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

Molly Bloom

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Molly Bloom
American - Author
Born: April 21, 1978

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

Larry Page

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David Byrne

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June Brown

To be successful, it is imperative that you not only know the organizations you work with, but more specifically, you have to know the actual people you work with within these organizations, understand what their personal goals and motivations are. In short, to be successful, you need to humanize your clients.

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People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Michael Schur

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

Kelly Ripa

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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John Hurt

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.

Gretchen Bleiler

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

Thomas Leonard

A dysfunctional team means a dysfunctional - and likely doomed - company.

Sallie Krawcheck

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

Bo Bennett

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata.