Category: Quotations

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you’re good at it.Amy Chua, Time, 31-Jan-2011 discussing her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

In three words I can sum up everythingI’ve learned about life:It goes on.Robert Frost

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion.  When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.Marilyn C. Barrick

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.Oliver Goldsmith

Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.Steve Jobs

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.Noah Porter