"Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero."

-- Louise J. Kaplan

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Hero Quotes

“The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.”
“My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.”
“Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.”
“In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.”
“When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)”
“I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.”
“I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.”
“Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.”

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