"There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't."

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Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

Amy Chua

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“You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.”
“Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.”
“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.”
“A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.”
“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”
“Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.”

Source : Roger E. Olson (2013). “The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction”, p.27, InterVarsity Press
“Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.”
“If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.”

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