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[Quote No.55722] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way!
" - Edgar Guest
poet
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[Quote No.55742] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Remember that your children will be significantly influenced by their friends because they, just like] You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
" - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.55748] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Self-talk and talking to others: in order to improve the way you talk to yourself, and the way others learn to talk to themselves, so it is more positive, supportive and rational - refer the value of skepticism and Rational Emotive Therapy - so you and they can be more productive, persistent and happy, they and] You need to remember the 3 P's: Permanence, pervasiveness and whether it’s personal.
Pessimists tell themselves that bad events:
--- 1. Will last a long time, or forever. ('I'll never get this done.')
---2. Are universal. ('You can't trust any of those people.')
---3. Are their own fault. ('I'm terrible at this.')
Optimists look at setbacks in the exact opposite way:
---1. Bad things are temporary. ('That happens occasionally but it's no big deal.')
---2. Bad things have a specific cause and aren't universal. ('When the weather is better that won't be a problem.')
---3. It's not their fault. ('I'm good at this but today wasn't my lucky day.')
When talking to yourself, be an optimist, not a pessimist.
[Martin E.P. Seligman in his book, 'Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life' states 'The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder.']
... And when good things happen, the situation reverses:
--Pessimists think good things will be short-lived, are rare and random.
--Optimists think good things will last forever, are universal and of their own doing.
What's the ultimate result of this? Pessimists often quit. Life feels futile. And when life feels futile, you stop trying and frequently get depressed.
[The solution is to change the way they think and so change their life!!]" - Eric Barker
[http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/07/how-to-be-optimistic/ ]
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[Quote No.55790] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.55839] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually operates upon us, and inspires our imitation in an irresistible manner. A good man therefore is a standing lesson to all his acquaintance, and of far greater use in that narrow circle than a good book!" - Henry Fielding
Quote from his novel 'Joseph Andrews', published 1742.
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[Quote No.55925] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The big shock: statistical analysis found that a child's level of self-control is every bit as powerful a predictor of her adult financial success and health (and criminal record, for that matter) as are social class, wealth of family of origin, or IQ. Willpower emerged as a completely independent force in life success - in fact, for financial success, self-control in childhood proved a stronger predictor than either IQ or social class of the family of origin. [Self-control and will-power can be increased by teaching a person the importance of controlling their attention onto what they want to do = focus, and off what they don't want to do = distraction!]" - Daniel Goleman
Quote from his book, 'Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence', published 2013.
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[Quote No.55929] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Dozens of studies show that willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success... Students who exerted high levels of willpower were more likely to earn higher grades in their classes and gain admission into more selective schools. They had fewer absences and spent less time watching television and more hours on homework. 'Highly self-disciplined adolescents outperformed their more impulsive peers on every academic-performance variable,' the researchers wrote. 'Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not.... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.' " - Charles Duhigg
Quote from his book 'The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business'.
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[Quote No.55945] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Fear, force and fraud are not as effective in the long-term as persuasion with desire and informed choice:] I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone!" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969), US general and 34th president.
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[Quote No.56015] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Tell me - what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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[Quote No.56029] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun! It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle [experiment and learn] for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. [With the challenges - including failures - providing the necessity to learn, guidance is more readily sought and gratefully absorbed.]" - Napoleon Hill
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[Quote No.56040] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One of the most important things we can do as parents of teenage kids is to make sure they have good friends. That's paramount. We as parents lose influence on our kids when they become teenagers. Their friends have a disproportionately larger impact on their choices than we do. We can influence the environment around our kids by helping them select friends." - Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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[Quote No.56047] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth!!" - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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[Quote No.56049] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We [especially should] begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance!" - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.56091] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I think I may say that of all the men [and women] we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." - John Locke
(1632 - 1704)
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[Quote No.56126] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant!" - Desiderius Erasmus
(1466 - 1536)
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[Quote No.56154] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say." - Wayne W. Dyer
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[Quote No.56265] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Stories for teaching and persuasion:] Once having been initiated and begun the spiritual [or other type of] journey, one often comes across difficulties and roadblocks. It is generally at this time that the spiritual [or other type of] guide tells a story [history, analogy or parable] in which the seeker finds similarities between his or her situation and the point of the story. Eventually the seeker learns the proper means of dealing with roadblocks by putting to use what he or she has learned from the story. As a result, stories perform a very subtle yet important function in the training and education of wayfarers on the path. If a teacher were to confront a pupil directly about what was blocking the pupil's progress, the teacher would likely activate the pupil's defense mechanism. The student's ego would be bruised, and the student would tend to argue that his or her actions were justified. Through the use of stories, the teacher ensures that the ego will not be alarmed and that the lessons will penetrate deep into the psyche. Thus, stories can serve to increase mental flexibility. The follower learns to give up his or her own perceptions of how things are or ought to be, and become prepared to receive higher levels of training!!" - Mohammad Ali Jamnia and Mojdeh Bayat
From their book, ‘Tales from the Land of the Sufis’.
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[Quote No.56315] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Power-over [force] is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education [and persuasion]!
" - Mary Parker Follett
(1868 - 1933)
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[Quote No.56317] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The basic task of education [for life success and happiness] is the care and feeding of the imagination [and how to use its tremendous power well]!" - Katherine Paterson
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[Quote No.56355] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The main piece of advice on making any relationship work is this: pay attention to it and nurture it! That's the priority!" - Nick Offerman
Actor, author and woodworker.
[http://www.biography.com/news/nick-offerman-biography-interview ]
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[Quote No.56369] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success... [We have to discover it for ourselves by learning from others' experience and our own 'trial and error'.]" - Harvey Mackay
bestselling author of 'Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive'.
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[Quote No.56439] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities!" - John Alexander Robinson
Former American football player and coach best known for his two stints as head coach of the University of Southern California football team and for his tenure as head coach of the NFL's Los Angeles Rams.
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[Quote No.56492] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Freedom, individualism, tolerance of peaceful diversity:] Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be [peacefully] different." - Roger Ebert
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[Quote No.56498] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Freedom, individualism, tolerance of peaceful diversity:] It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in [peaceful] diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou
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[Quote No.56551] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old!" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.56590] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity!!" - William Pitt
(1708 - 1778), 1st Earl of Chatham.
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[Quote No.56597] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy." - Astrid Lindgren
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[Quote No.56715] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Help me to understand. Good hosts [parents] begin their conversation with these four words in an effort to learn more about the other. In the midst of difficulty, they turn to wonder rather than judgment. Whenever there are different perspectives in a conversation, a good host [parent] seeks to understand better how others see things, their feelings, and why their position is important to them." - Diane M. Millis
in 'Conversation - The Sacred Art'.
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[Quote No.56721] Need Area: Friends > Children
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For no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
" - George Eliot
(1819 - 1880), pen-name of Mary Ann Evans.
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[Quote No.56793] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it!" - George Orwell
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[Quote No.56832] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Sometimes] Experience is a comb nature gives to the bald [so they can share it to help others]!" - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.56944] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'
...The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. [Life-skills are some of these most obvious, important realities which are often the hardest to see and talk about, and yet they are really the most important to living well, being happy and successful and contributing to improving the world for yourself, those you love and the rest of us. One of the most important and powerful life-skills is learning how to think:] ...learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliche about 'the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.' ...On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, cliches, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness." - David Foster Wallace
(1962-2008), American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Quoted from his commencement speech in 2005 to Kenyon College. The speech was published as a book called 'This Is Water' in 2009. In May 2013, portions of the speech were used in a popular online video also titled 'This is Water'. [http://markmanson.net/this-is-water ]
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[Quote No.57039] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? [Thus the importance of an education in the life-skills that empower each person to make the most of their birth-right to political, individual freedom and responsibility!!]" - Eric Hoffer
'The True Believer'
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[Quote No.57080] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919), 26th President of the United States.
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[Quote No.57221] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
" - Jane Fonda
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[Quote No.57558] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve!!" - Tom Landry
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[Quote No.57577] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[The mystery of death:] I have always felt that the way one faces death is greatly determined by the model one's parents set. The last gift a parent can give to children is to teach them, through example, how to face death with equanimity ...
" - Irvin D. Yalom
(1931 - ), American existential psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Quote from his 1989 classic 'Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy', p.86.
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[Quote No.57587] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The fact that much of Penny's therapeutic change was self-generated and self-directed contains an important lesson for therapists [friends, parents, leaders, etc], a consoling thought a teacher shared with me early in my training: 'Remember, you can't do all the work! Be content to help a patient [person, etc] realize what must be done and then trust his or her own desire for growth and change.'" - Irvin D. Yalom
(1931 - ), American existential psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Quote from his 1989 classic 'Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy', p.143.
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[Quote No.57626] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[When dealing with the young it is wise to remember...] At eighty I believe I am a far more cheerful person than I was at twenty or thirty. I most definitely would not want to be a teenager again. Youth may be glorious, but it is also painful to endure..." - Henry Miller
(1891 - 1980), American writer.
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[Quote No.57697] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example [especially to our children]." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.57746] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Don't worry that your kids don't always listen to you. Worry that they're always watching you!" - Robert Fulghum
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[Quote No.57885] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Parenting is comprised of ordinary and extraordinary moments of connection and growth as I try my best to love, help and treasure my children." - Sara Debbie Gutfreund
[http://www.aish.com/f/p/4-Defining-Moments-of-Parenting.html?s=mm ]
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[Quote No.57899] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. [The role of parent is first to understand their child's dependency upon them and over time to enable their child to become independent of them and others then eventually understanding and contributing to the value of human interdependence.]" - E.M. Forster
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[Quote No.58104] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
" - W.E.B. Du Bois
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[Quote No.58107] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves." - Robert Neelly Bellah
(1927-2013), sociologist and author.
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[Quote No.58213] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Of course you love your children. But do your children know this? Hug your child today and tell them how much you love them." - Unknown
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[Quote No.58223] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Your most powerful parenting tool is praise [and attention]. Use it liberally to motivate kids to do more of what you want them to do." - Sarah Chana Radcliffe
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[Quote No.58248] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence." - Carol Dweck
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[Quote No.58251] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Youth: a time of great disturbance, folly, and distress, for which we are nostalgic the rest of our lives." - Jim Collins
Fiction writer and Credit Manager for an Alabama wholesale grocery company
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[Quote No.58280] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Beware paternalistic, interventionist, statist, social activists, politicians, and governments that want to politically empower themselves rather than educationally empower the individuals concerned with the necessary life-skills:-] The tragic truth is that the language of 'victimization' is the true victimizer - a great crippler of young minds and spirits. To teach young people ['learned helplessness' and lack of perceived personal locus of control -] that their lives are governed - not by their own actions, but by socioeconomic forces or government budgets or other mysterious and fiendish forces beyond their control - is to teach our children negativism, resignation, passivity, and despair." - Louis Sullivan
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