Decentering Quotes

#1. If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

David Elkind

#2. If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

Brad Thor

#3. You can't judge people by their cover.

Benjamin Clementine

#4. I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Paulina Porizkova

#5. Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#6. The "gravity train" was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.

Stephen Baxter

#7. Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Patanjali

#8. The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Conrad Hilton

#9. I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.

Tom Sims

#10. In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.

Jon Stewart

#11. A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives.

Kazimir Malevich

#12. So maybe we're both broken," I said. "Maybe we make each other whole.

J. Kenner

#13. I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Isabel Allende

#14. Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Cecelia Ahern

#15. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour

#16. The two most beautiful words in any language are : I forgive.

Stephen King