Karnofsky Ecog Quotes & Sayings

Wanting our kids to be successful is natural," says Palo Alto psychiatrist Stacy Budin. "But the less healthy part comes from the hyper drive in our communities for kids to set themselves apart and shine in one way or another, or in all ways. There's so much pressure for kids to achieve that it can become the focus of the mother's life to ensure that high achievement happens. Some mothers seem to have nothing but their kids' SATs and accomplishments to talk about. Then, when college admission offers come, the competitiveness, bragging, and comparisons are hard for all but the few who have the most to brag about. It's not great for kids and it's not great for mothers."32 And what's more, this great achievement race is all calibrated to a college admission system that is very, very broken. — Julie Lythcott-Haims

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. — John Stuart Mill

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture. — Jacob Abbott

I said, 'Hey', she said, 'Hi.'
I said, 'Us', she said, 'Try,'
'And if you're thinkin strictly boots, then I'll say baby, bye bye.' — Dres

You don't need coffee, you don't need cocaine, you need to breathe into YOUR FUCKING BALLS ! — Elliott Hulse

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution. — Sonia Marciano

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them. — Andre Malraux

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people. — Napoleon Hill

We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity. — Georges Bataille

Things are always obvious after the fact. The civil servant was a very intelligent person, and this mistake is much more prevalent than one would think. It has to do with the way our mind handles historical information. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love. — Michel De Montaigne

You're either a missionary or a mission field. — Loren Cunningham