1. Follow the George Costazana (Seinfeld) rule: After one really good conversation or joke, leave.
- Anonymous
2. What goes around, comes around.
- Anon.
3. Lunch with at least one weird...
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1. Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
- Lena Dunham
2. Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and...
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1. The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.
- Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, ...
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1. This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. "You're up for a promotio...
Self Improvement Skills
At some time or other in our lifetime, everyone among us have gone through hard, testing times - difficult times that have tested our belief in ourselves and in the fairness of this world.
We have ...
Self Improvement Skills
1. Education is not about schooling.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
- Quentin Tarantino, self-taught cult filmmaker
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Self Improvement Skills
Of all the 'fancy' things educators want students to do! One such is to write in 1-3 lines all that students would like to do, and achieve in their future careers. This is supposed to encourag...
Self Improvement Skills
'Nana korobi ya oki' (fall down seven times and get up eight.)
- Japanese proverb
1. Grit is the extraordinary levels of motivation we use/need to get through the particularly ...
Self Improvement Skills
Resilience (aka the Robert Bruce attitude) is our ability to bounce back from setbacks, how we deal with the tough times in life, and come back stronger afterwards.
Everyone among us has ...
Self Improvement Skills
In surveys, people list a lack of willpower as one of the top things holding them back. The right amount of willpower is all we need - too much willpower stresses out out, too little of willpower sabo...