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growing-up want be-kind
Akhil Sharma It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
growing-up play fiction
Chris Carter I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
growing-up memories book
Chris Colfer Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.
growing-up character gay
Chris Colfer I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
growing-up believe loss
Chris Abani That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.
growing-up humble thinking
Chloe Sevigny I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.
growing-up thinking people
Chinua Achebe I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
growing-up listening stuff
Eddie Murphy Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
school figures ifs
Alan Watts You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
school hard-work church
Alan Paton But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
school ideas forgotten
Alan Bennett I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
school care students
Alan Ball I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
school thinking lasts
Alan Alda When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
school law alaska
Al Stewart Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
school past records
Akio Morita I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
school thinking guy
Chris Cleave I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
school kind sweeney-todd
Chris Colfer I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
expectations people words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations boredom inspire
Edward Hirsch One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.
expectations understanding may
David Hume Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
expectations recipes disaster
Bear Grylls You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
expectations assuming granted
Frederic Bastiat Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
expectations people trying
Derek Jacobi Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
expectations i-can do-the-best
Carlos Beltran I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.
expectations stupidity conform
Carlos Castaneda It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
expectations would-be mature
Charlie Munger One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely