The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it.… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
