Amy Chua Quotes

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

Amy Chua

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WorkHard WorkChildrenParentsFeel

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

EducationPeopleHigher Education

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

John Rawls

LovePowerManEvilBadInjustice

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

Sonia Sotomayor

The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.

Jon Batiste

FamilyPeopleWeekYouFindNew

The level here in England is much higher than in France.

Dimitri Payet

LevelHereFranceThanMuchHigher

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Clint Eastwood

TimeMenFallSayPrimeLevel

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

Bruce Dickinson

MyselfPrismYesKnownShallLonger

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

Ari Graynor

ActingShareStartedReadSeven

I don't go to the afterparties. I think people always feel if I go to the afterparties, they have to behave well, which, after all, is not the point of an afterparty.

Anna Wintour

PeopleThinkFeelGoAlwaysPoint

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.

Ashwin Sanghi

BeginOmniscientOmnipotent

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

Peter Mullan

GoodWishI WishUpLiesMade

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

Tim DeKay

DaughterDinnerGoTwoMonthOut

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