Drama Of The Gifted Quotes

#1. I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops when they read Miller's dead-on description of why we became therapists. (...) I wish more people were familiar with her work.

Ryan Howes

#2. So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

Orson Scott Card

#3. I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

Ayn Rand

#4. Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
A helpless Babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?

John Godfrey Saxe

#5. Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Richard Madden

#7. Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child.

Robert B. Parker

#8. Tiger Mother felt like reliving a childhood trauma; The Drama of the Gifted Child felt like going through the therapy to cure it.

William Deresiewicz

#9. We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.

Angela Y. Davis

#10. As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Jason Silva

#11. The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

P.T. Barnum

#12. Not enough people know what Lyme disease is and the dangers of being bitten by an insect.

Gigi Hadid

#13. You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.

Lauren Oliver

#14. It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.

Walter Munk

#15. I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

Sean Berdy

#16. We are in charge of our own lives and how we spend our time. You should never do something you don't want to do. Lives are incredibly short. If it doesn't feel right to do something then you have permission to not do it. Who cares what other people will think?

Shannon Kaiser

#17. It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

Roger Ebert

#18. I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#19. In short, the liberation of the individual conscience from hierarchical and priestly authority opened up space for critical thinking in every field of human activity.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#20. I called her name into the fold between night and day.

Marie Howe

#21. I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

Richard Madden

#22. One is free from depression," writes Alice Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, "when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one's own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.

John Bradshaw