Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffingtonis a Greek American author, syndicated columnist, occasional actress, and businesswoman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
eulogy limited-time earth
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
giver
Be a go-giver, not a go-getter
next-week literature way
I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
mother thinking opposites
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.
sleep advice pieces
I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.
games class becoming
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
self expression people
Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.
speaks-out opposites goal
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.
people giving
The happiest people are the most giving people
positive success business
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.
campaign designed eligible last million reach voters
Our campaign is designed to reach those 13 million eligible voters who are so disillusioned they didn't even vote in last year's election.
american-journalist break cycle embrace fastest fearless indeed mother perfectly
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
women failure successful
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
sex attitude skills
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.