Jack Canfield Quotes
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
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There's a lot you can do without words.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
