top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."
Standard
Customized
More
"Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent."
Cheating
"I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock."
Boats
"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."
Ideas
"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."
Charity
"I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive."
Celebrity
"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
Court
"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."
Mother
"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others."
People
"When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption."
People
"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood."
People
More
"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page