Amy Chua Quotes

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

Amy Chua

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• Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Small
  • Hand

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Love
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Women
  • Why

• Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Heart
  • Trust
  • Fire

• My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Mom

• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Mind
  • Earth

• What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

  

  Amy Chua
  • Believe
  • Chinese