"Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about."

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Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five”, p.9, Pear Press

John Medina

#Children Quotes #Joy Quotes #Transition Quotes

“I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.”
“A womanâ€™s heart is not bought by the currency of a manâ€™s emotion for her. A womanâ€™s heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.”
“Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.”
“Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.”
“I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.”
“Great people do things before theyâ€™re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, theyâ€™re proven right.”
“When I was going to college, there were probably four colleges in the nation that offered a major in meteorology. I wasn't fortunate enough to be in a part of the country where that was readily accessible. I have been doing weather since I graduated from college. I feel solid about what I'm doing.”
“Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.”

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