What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Penguin, 2005 - 256 pàgines

She was a woman of confidence, focus, and passion, and it made her one of the world's greatest sources of inspiration and influence. She drew on a remarkable wealth of self-knowledge and a sense of purpose to cope with extraordinary public demands and overwhelming private needs. How can anyone emulate Jackie?

What Jackie Taught Us offers Jackie's own personal lessons about how best to live one's life with poise, grace, and zest, including wisdom about image and style, courage and vision, men, marriage, motherhood, and motivation, and how best to apply those lessons to everyday life. With the shining example of this American icon, we can illuminate who we are, what we want—and what we truly need from ourselves and each other.

 

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Pàgina 11 - We must give to life at least as much as we receive from it. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love and happiness are all interwoven into one single indescribable whole that is called LIFE. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And, perhaps, there is no need to do so either.
Pàgina 158 - I despise America and I don't want my children to live here any more. If they're killing Kennedys, my kids are numberone targets ... I want to get out of this country...
Pàgina 56 - HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Pàgina 23 - ... if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Pàgina 109 - Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Pàgina 172 - I want no more — / mean this — and if you are firm and will take the time, you can stop it. So please do. What is a press secretary for — to help the press, yes — but also to protect us.
Pàgina 87 - Last night. at around ten-fifteen. my mother passed on ... surrounded by her friends and her family and her books and the people and the things that she loved. And she did it in her own way and in her own terms. and we all feel lucky for that. and now she's in God's hands.
Pàgina 43 - I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Sobre l'autor (2005)

Tina Santi Flaherty, a lifelong admirer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was the first woman elected a vice president at three of America's largest companies: Colgate-Palmolive, GTE, and Grey Advertising. Described by Business Week as one of America's top corporate women, she is a much sought-after motivational speaker and the author of Talk Your Way to the Top and The Savvy Woman's Success Bible. She coaches politicians, educators, and Fortune 500 executives in the art of communicating with creativity.

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