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I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

Inspirational Life Positive

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Motivational Persons Rooms

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

Cases Ready Worst

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

Born Innovation Vision

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

Innovative People Together

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Feelings Risk Scared

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

Prioritize

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

Bottom Lists

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

Inspirational Interesting Life Is Short

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

Player Smart Thinking

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

Amazing Opportunities Opportunity Thinking

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

Interesting Next Thinking

People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

Google People Use

New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

May New Beginnings Thinking

I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.

Dangerous Enough Knows

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Badass Technology Thinking

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Creativity Thrive

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Men Passion Play

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

Creativity People Thinking

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

People Technology Thinking