Brené Brown Quotes

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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• I don't plan on being bashful.

  

  Rand Paul
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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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  • Thinking
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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
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• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
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• I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Horses
  • Stream
  • Crossing

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Tennis

• I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

  

  Deana Carter

• My career goal is to work as a liaison between organized medicine, government, and third-party payers.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Party

• Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Artist
  • Risk
  • Creative

• I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up.

  

  Pauline Trigere
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hair

• You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Animal
  • German

• My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

  

  Brené Brown
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  • Children
  • Husband