Rodearon En Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. — Elliott Abrams

Your heart is the correspondent of your soul. It knows the grooves of joy. — Karen Ruimy

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. — Michel Foucault

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all. — Jack Bruce

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience. — Leon Bridges

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood. — Jane Hersey

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line. — Marianne Williamson

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world. — Marta

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. — Harold Brodkey

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up. — Bobby Fischer

After seven experiments with hundreds of children, we had some of the clearest findings I've ever seen: Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. How can that be? Don't children love to be praised? Yes, children love praise. And they especially love to be praised for their intelligence and talent. It really does give them a boost, a special glow - but only for the moment. The minute they hit a snag, their confidence goes out the window and their motivation hits rock bottom. If success means they're smart, then failure means they're dumb. That's the fixed mindset. — Carol S. Dweck