"If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Paul Tough

#Kids Quotes #Childhood Quotes #World Quotes

“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.”
“I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.”
“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”
“This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.”
“Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company
“Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.”
“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.”
“I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.”

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