Lois Wyse Quotes

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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to 'that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress,' and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

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Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

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Repeat nothing — absolutely nothing — that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

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Letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

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For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter. Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

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No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

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If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

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Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

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Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

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What she didn't know was the loss of self when a husband dies. What she didn't know was the cold side of the bed, the side that would never be warm again. What she didn't know was the hollowness of the halls of her home. Where was the deep voice, the heavy walk?

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The only people in the whole world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

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So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

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The older he got, the more comfortable his prejudices became and now, like his pipe, they seemed a part of his manner and dress.

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Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive — and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

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