Judicious Review Quotes & Sayings

Self-regulation can be taught to many kids who cycle between frantic activity and immobility. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, all kids need to learn self-awareness, self-regulation, and communication as part of their core curriculum. Just as we teach history and geography, we need to teach children how their brains and bodies work. For adults and children alike, being in control of ourselves requires becoming familiar with our inner world and accurately identifying what scares, upsets, or delights us. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own. — Nick Harkaway

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. — Malcolm Boyd

Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves. — Charles Hodge

I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need — Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage. — Neko Case

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. — Michael Ondaatje

What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy. — Ace Hood

I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. — Jenny Han

More than any other kind of relationship to food, hospitality reflects the underlying assumptions of society, assumptions which can and do shift with time. Social forms which once served society well by regulating and polishing behaviour for the better comfort of all can become ossified, empty and oppressive to the individual. Change may be necessary, but change must be motivated by good feeling and concern for others, not by desire to create an impression. Elegance and propriety are always desirable, because they smooth over any social disharmony, but they should be accompanied by real generosity of spirit; and where there is such generosity, want of elegance and propriety may be excused. — Maggie Lane

You're a very special girl, Penryn. An amazing girl. An I-didn't-even-know-someone-like-you-existed kind of girl. And you deserve someone who treats you like you're the only important thing in his life because you are. Someone who plows his fields and raises pigs just for you. — Susan Ee

Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself. — Marcus Aurelius

Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve. — Jack Canfield