"I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now."

-- Amy Chua

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Youâ€™re just a young kid. What are you doinâ€™ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, whyâ€¦ bird-dogginâ€™ chicks and banginâ€™ beaver. What are ya doinâ€™ here, for Christâ€™s sake? Whatâ€™s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothinâ€™ but complain about how you canâ€™t stand it in this place here and then you havenâ€™t got the guts just to walk out!”
“The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.”
“War is an option of difficulties.”
“Naming can limit as well as empower.”
“We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.”
“Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.”
“If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.”

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