One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can’t pl… - Sheryl Sandberg

when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress. Mark was right.

Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others. When we recognize that we can see things only from our own perspective, we can share our views in a nonthreatening way.

The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are “benevolent sexists” — holding positive yet outdated views about women.10 (Another term I have heard is “nice guy misogynists.”)

Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.