Citas de Ruth Simmons

• I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

  Ruth Simmons

  Worthwhile, Value Of Education, Good Living

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• Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

  Ruth Simmons

  Failure, Achievement, Fuel

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• There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

  Ruth Simmons

  Ambition, Leader

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• the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

  Ruth Simmons

  Children, Important, Accepting

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• If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

  Ruth Simmons

  Leader, Advice, Risk

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• Major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action.

  Ruth Simmons

  Opportunity, People, Training

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• The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

  Ruth Simmons

  Humanity, Groups, Should

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• En un papel de liderazgo es muy importante no poner tu ego en primer plano y no juzgarlo todo en relación con cómo se alimenta tu ego.

  Ruth Simmons

  Judging, Ego, Important

  "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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• If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Real, Team

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• Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

  Ruth Simmons

  People, Quality, Needs

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• I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

  Ruth Simmons

  Worry, Parent, Taught

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• If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

  Ruth Simmons

  Team, Want, Firsts

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• We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning. We are also committed to using a participatory approach in which local people, local program managers and providers, local researchers, women's health activists, and national decision-makers play the leading role. International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers.

  Ruth Simmons

  Agency, Play, People

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• There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

  Ruth Simmons

  Strong, Boards, Corporations

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• One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

  Ruth Simmons

  Team, Years, Firsts

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• Hay cientos, incluso miles, de proyectos piloto o experimentales notables en todos los campos: agricultura, sanidad, educación. Pero ¿adónde nos llevan estos proyectos piloto? ¿Llevan a un cambio a mayor escala? Si no es así, ¿cómo podemos garantizar que tengan un impacto más amplio?

  Ruth Simmons

  Agriculture, Impact, Health Education

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• Queríamos ver cómo se puede ampliar el acceso a la atención y mejorar la calidad de los servicios cuando se utiliza un enfoque participativo para el desarrollo de programas. Demostramos que los grandes cambios son posibles si se trabaja de forma participativa, se escucha a la población local, se diagnostican los problemas, se imparte formación y se identifican las oportunidades de movilizar recursos locales para actuar. Con el tiempo, los dirigentes de otros municipios manifestaron su interés por reproducir el proyecto y éste consiguió extender las innovaciones a otras tres zonas.

  Ruth Simmons

  Opportunity, People, Leader

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• A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

  Ruth Simmons

  Perspective, Intellectual, Faces

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• If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

  Ruth Simmons

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Reality, Self

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• Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.

  Ruth Simmons

  Social Taboos, Support, Culture

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• Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.

  Ruth Simmons

  Grateful, Support, Innovation

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• In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.

  Ruth Simmons

  Issues, Innovation, Development

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• I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

  Ruth Simmons

  Opportunity, Organization, People

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• Los responsables políticos de alto nivel y los gestores de programas no suelen escuchar las voces de la población local, los proveedores locales y los gestores de programas locales cuando toman decisiones sobre la introducción de anticonceptivos u otros aspectos del desarrollo de programas de salud reproductiva.

  Ruth Simmons

  Voice, People, Decision

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