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Sloan Wilson Quotes

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1920 - May 25, 2003

Topics

Kindness Children Child Treat Well

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

Art Money World You Move On Will

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

Life Death Happy Destination End

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.

Children People Driving Doing Admire

When you get an invitation to come back and be part of the team that will be the architect of the next generation of growth, when you get an opportunity in a business of the size and scope of McDonald's, that's incredibly attractive.

Steve Easterbrook

Growth Business Opportunity Team You

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

Family Push Interesting Drama Want

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

I Am People American Genius Talking

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Mother Happy College Me Sister Plan

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Dianne Feinstein

Women Go See Through Take Doorway

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

Work Chair You House Want Never

I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.

Holiday Christmas Years Little Show

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Think Trying Moral Want Compass

At times I think and at times I am.

I Am Think Brainy I Think Am Times

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