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- We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.
- Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, 2009
- It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
- Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
- My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
- Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
- Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.
- Randy Frost and Gail Steketee, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, 2010
- The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 2
- Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King John, Act III, sc. 4
- Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
- Edward Albee
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