Rosalind Wiseman Quotes

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

Andrew Weil

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During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

John Marshall

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I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

Steve Schirripa

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The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

Ron Lester

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He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Mary C. Jones

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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Liya Kebede

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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Joy Williams

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I haven't seen one second of any episode of 'Lost,' ever.

Brooke Elliott

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I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

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