"I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it."

-- Nia Long

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Upset Quotes

“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.”

Source : "Andrew Strauss retires from all forms of cricket - as it happened" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.
“If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”
“You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done...”
“I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.”
“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”
“My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.”
“As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.”

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