Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

Sandra Cisneros

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1954

Topics

TimeMyselfCollegeMeBehavior

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

Matthew Walker

SleepWhySeemAbleOlderSimply

Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.

Rob McElhenney

YouLoseStopWillCaloriesWeight

My wife's Lisa Bonet. I'm a very lucky man.

Jason Momoa

WifeManLuckyVery

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

Diane Sawyer

BraveSayingKnowWhy

If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.

Chevy Stevens

YouWantBecomeNeedWillingWriter

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Christian de Duve

ControlThinkWayBirthEthical

Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

Wyatt Cenac

MeBrooklynPersonalOutsideGone

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

Phil Collins

LifeMenMeStoryThoughtDie

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

ResultAccuracyOwnEventBeenMade

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Mariel Hemingway

LoveMeWorldThoughtActingLiving

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

Marshall Brickman

CameraMoreDirectorDialogueWhere

Never waste a crisis.

Mark Rutte

CrisisNeverWaste

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