"One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Morning Quotes #Father Quotes #Lying Quotes

“You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.”
“It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.”
“You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.”
“A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.”
“The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.”

Source : Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
“You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.”
“After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.”
“No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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