Bruce Feiler Quotes

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• The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.
• There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
• The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
• May your first word be adventure and last word love.
• But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
• One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop…
• Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as…
• Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
• It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the…
• After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop…
• Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the…
• When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got…
• When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship.…
• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
• Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
• Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.
• Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
• Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
• I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

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