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Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?

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Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
That's important too. Because everyone has to have an outlet. Otherwise you can get so involved in your job, or any one thing, that you're not a very well-balanced person, and you're not happy either, normally. I think it's very important to take up an avocation. Sports — that was mine.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1991 source ↗
Andrew Young Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
It was only with her help that I did everything. The tragedy was that after 40 years of marriage she died of cancer. I say that if Martin and I had not married the little country girls we married from Alabama, you never would have heard our names.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1996 source ↗
Abraham Verghese Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University
they are much more ready to put their family and their children first in a way that I regret that I didn't do.
Recorded Mr. Feineh, On Being with Krista Tippett, Stanford University audience question, 4 April 2019 source ↗

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