Korzeniewski Carol Quotes

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine. ~ Carol Alt

All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation] ~ Daniel Coyle

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass. ~ Carol Anshaw

There should be no crying in copyediting. ~ Carol Fisher Saller

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful. ~ Carol Bartz

It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die. ~ Carol Shields

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing. ~ Carol Gilligan

Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that, too, if you want to. ~ Carol S. Dweck

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation. ~ Carol Gilligan

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. ~ Carol S. Dweck

I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while. ~ Mary Karr

And so he suspected the mayor of easing the budget crunch for sheltering the poor by giving them one-way bus tickets to warmer climates. And that was cold. ~ Carol O'Connell

Without anyone to talk to, a person is not quite real. Sounds are very important - we are like bats tapping at each other with sounds, making sure there is someone there, groping along. Sounds. Syllables. The beat of music. It is all a curious flowing, which you can hear only when you are silent yourself. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular. ~ Claire Tomalin

Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Being treated with politeness, consideration, even respect is different from being treated as an equal. ~ Carol Lynn Pearson

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed ~ Carol Bell

When you truly stop seeing your children's tendencies through eyes of judgment, they will feel the change and respond in positive ways you cannot yet anticipate. ~ Carol Tuttle

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? ~ Carol Vorderman

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. ~ Carol Bellamy

I wanted a monument to myself in granite. I wanted my face in seven different colours. I wanted I LOVE YOU in giant red letters on top of the Museum of Modern Art. I wanted a new bridge across the Hudson in my name. I wanted a three-volume history of the Greeks dedicated to my memory. I wanted a filmed version of my life in Ektachrome Commercial. I wanted the Mercedes-Benz no longer to be for Mercedes.

But I have small breasts. ~ Carol Emshwiller

a woman would have to be a blind lesbian nun to not be affected by him. ~ Carol Maloney Scott

In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love
the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I am not at peace.' Daisy Goodwill's final (unspoken) words. ~ Carol Shields

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property. ~ Joyce Carol Oates