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A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if…
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Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
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Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it.…
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I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in…
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Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you…
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I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is…
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having…
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Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections…
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good…
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to…
— Paul Auster
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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
— Max Beerbohm
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked…
— David Bowie
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half…
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The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
— David Byrne
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
— Abraham Cahan
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It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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