"My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me."

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Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

#Goal Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Troubled is a polite word for what I am.”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.”
“My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.”
“Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.”

Source : Source: ca.complex.com
“I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.”

Source : "So We Talked To Skrillex, Who Has A Phone". Interview with Mat Honan, www.buzzfeed.com. May 21, 2015.
“Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.”
“I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.”

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