Top 100 Meg Medina Quotes
#1. One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future.
Jason Medina
#2. Iffin we meant to see each other, again, it gonna happen.
Jason Medina
#4. Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.
Jason Medina
#5. Music has been a part of the cultural expression of virtually every culture ever studied. It may even extend into prehistoric times. A 35,000-year-old flute made from bird bone has been discovered,
John Medina
#6. Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.
John Medina
#7. Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.
Eliseo Medina
#8. Souls should, by definition, also teach about the metaphysical dimensions
John Medina
#9. Yeah, sure. That's what you think." She sounds a little sad when she says it. A boy hasn't looked Mitzi in the eyes for years. Their eyes stayed glued to her chest. "I'll be her boyfriend noticed you or something like that. But if that's what happened, you're done.
Meg Medina
#10. You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.
Meg Medina
#11. Watch it, nasty boy, or I might jest have you fixed, iffin you not careful.
Jason Medina
#13. Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The
John Medina
#14. Papi chose to be invisible today so you won't ever have to be.
Meg Medina
#15. Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day - turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry - and see whether you get more done.
John Medina
#16. We are human because we can fantasize.
John Medina
#17. She shrugged innocently at him and asked, "What I do?
Jason Medina
#18. I want him to tell me that he still loves me. That he can't imagine life without me, the way I can't imagine my life without him.
But he doesn't.
And he won't.
Because he's Finn.
And Finn doesn't need anybody.
And Finn doesn't beg.
R.S. Medina
#19. I grip my charm tighter. All I can think about is Yaqui Delgado's eyes, about what kind of cloak she wears, what kind of dagger she'll run through me.
Meg Medina
#20. By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.
Jason Medina
#22. The laboratory, the gold standard appears to be aerobic exercise, 30 minutes at a clip, two or three times a week. Add a strengthening regimen and you get even more cognitive benefit.
John Medina
#23. That doesn't last. By their first birthday, Kuhl found, babies can no longer distinguish between the sounds of every language on the planet. They can distinguish only between those to which they have been exposed in the past six months.
John Medina
#24. Author Elizabeth Stone once said, Making a decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
John Medina
#25. Desert and Death Valley were the Mecca and Al Medina
Greg Bear
#26. Cranberry cock-tail for me, you dirty carpet-muncher.
Jason Medina
#27. Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War
Angel Ramon Medina
#28. As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.
Jane L Rosen
#29. It was too late to think about what could have been or what should have been. What's done is done. The past was in the past and there was no changing it.
Jason Medina
#30. In Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.
Todd Russell
#31. Advice and love are the only things I can give you for free.
Jason Medina
#32. He was a paranormal investigator. Yes, a ghost hunter, although he never liked to use that terminology. As far as he was concerned, it was inappropriate. He didn't really hunt ghosts, although he did search for them.
Jason Medina
#33. What's obvious to you is obvious to you.
John Medina
#34. (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say),
John Medina
#35. It's simple my heart is made from love and love will always beat hate any day and anywhere! No amount of evil can ever conquer me.
Angel Ramon Medina
#36. When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her ...
Meg Medina
#37. You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
John Medina
#38. What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like - it literally rewires it.
John Medina
#39. He really didn't care, but he tried to pretend he did.
Jason Medina
#41. Hey, I knows things. I can take you places, but you gots to be willin' to do certain... things.
Jason Medina
#42. Not everyone can just up an' go whenever they please!
Jason Medina
#43. At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
Maya Angelou
#44. He saw her eyes staring back at him. Those deep blue eyes, which seemed so much older than the body they inhabited. Her eyes were locked with his. There was a connection between them. He saw her pain and he felt it, too. He wanted to cry for her.
Jason Medina
#45. As the Quran suggests over and over again, and as the Constitution of Medina explicitly affirms, Muhammad may have understood the concept of the Umm al-Kitab to mean not only that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims shared a single divine scripture but also that they constituted a single divine Ummah.
Reza Aslan
#46. If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.
John Medina
#47. You know? Ain't it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death.
Jason Medina
#48. I can't get Yaqui Delgado out of my mind. Plenty of girls shake their junk. How is that enough to make somebody hate you? It's crazy.
Meg Medina
#49. Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
John Medina
#50. Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
John Medina
#51. Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself ...
Harold Medina
#52. These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon!
Angel Ramon Medina
#53. So, Ray... you seem like a cool cat," she said. "Are you into alternative lifestyle parties?
Jason Medina
#54. The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)
Rodolfo Rios Medina
#55. The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained.
John Medina
#56. One of the greatest predictors of performance in school turns out to be the emotional stability of the home.
John Medina
#57. The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.
John Medina
#58. people don't pay attention to boring things
John Medina
#59. Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.
John Medina
#60. We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
Luis Medina
#62. How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.
John Medina
#63. Now utter (this supplication, and then prepare yourself to migrate to Medina), "My Lord! Let my entrance be an honest entrance, let my exit be an honest exit, and bestow upon me power from You to help me." [80]
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#64. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.
John Medina
#65. I promise I will never stop loving you," he said. "I will love you for all eternity."
"Always?" She asked.
"And forever," he replied with a smile.
Jason Medina
#67. Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way
you can see where you came from but can't go back.
Meg Medina
#68. The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.
John Medina
#71. Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an' lose yo'self in it.
Jason Medina
#72. When I look up, I'm surprised to find myself in front of the old building. My feet must have gone on autopilot. I'm like one of those African elephants that finds her way home, no matter how far she's roamed.
Meg Medina
#73. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well.
John Medina
#74. If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.
John Medina
#75. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
John Medina
#76. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Josef Pieper
#77. There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#78. Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.
Nelson DeMille
#79. The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state.
Abdal Hakim Murad
#80. Never give up trust what your heart says!" - Angel's Father when Angel is escaping the glooba base
Angel Ramon Medina
#81. Estas hecha una mujer." She shakes her head sadily. A lot of the salon women tell me this: "You've become a woman." None of them ever sounds too happy about it.
Meg Medina
#82. You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
Angel Ramon Medina
#83. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#84. I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back.
Jason Medina
#85. South to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,
Todd Russell
#86. To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
John Medina
#87. The typical human brain can hold about seven pieces of new information for less than 30 seconds!
John Medina
#88. Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn't want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her.
Jason Medina
#89. We are never alone God will always be with us.
Edwin Medina
#90. There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.
John Medina
#91. The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become
John Medina
#92. You know where this Yaqui girl is going to be in a few years if she doesn't change? She'll still be there, same as always in her old neighborhood
a nobody with nothing. And guess what? That's her worst fear.
Meg Medina
#93. The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.
John Medina
#94. A beauty beyond words," whispered Rini, mesmerized by the view.
Jason Medina
#95. Baby, I'm so sorry. You know I wouldn't feel right, if I ran away from my responsibilities. I'd have to live with that decision for the rest of my life. My being in the war could save lives. My running away will only save mine. It's a selfish decision to make. I'll come back to you. I promise.
Jason Medina
#96. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.
John Medina
#97. The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.
John Medina
#98. There's one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don't have anywhere else to go.
Jason Medina
#99. The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.
Jason Medina
#100. People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.
John Medina
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