Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.