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| 2eef5fa | Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience", meaning that they believed that other people are just as attuned to their appearance and behavior as they are." | perception reputation | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 63caf63 | Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one. | self-perception | Alexandra Robbins | |
| fc24011 | In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a "crowd contagion." | peer-pressure | Alexandra Robbins | |
| b1b7859 | The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it. | perception | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 672c4d0 | Teenage drinking has been declining since 1999, but students vastly overestimate their classmates' use of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. For example, a study conducted at a Midwestern high school when teenage alcohol use was peaking found that students believed that 92% of their peers Frank alcohol and 85% smoked cigarettes. When researchers surveyed the school to unearth the actual statistics, they learned that 47% of students had consume.. | perceptions | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 4f43d3c | You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, "So what?" What if you don't get married by 30? So what? What if you haven't paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you're not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don't have to get to everything right now." | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 2624e2d | What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 6b414d7 | We live in the Age of Comparison. Too often, we deem our own achievements worthless if they fall short of others' standards. Our best isn't good enough if it's not as good as someone else's best. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 152ff97 | Medicine asked something extraordinary of nurses: to forge intimate connections with another person for hours, weeks, or months, to care thoroughly and holistically--and then to let that individual suddenly go, often never to be heard from again. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 99bfd4c | As a Minnesota agency nurse said, "We are not just bed-making, drink-serving, poop-wiping, medication-passing assistants. We are much more." | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 2b879ba | In 1967, psychiatrist Leonard Stein described the nurse's role in an essay entitled "The Doctor-Nurse Game." The object of the game, he said, was for a nurse to "make her recommendations appear to be initiated by the physician. . . . The nurse who does see herself as a consultant but refuses to follow the rules of the game in making her recommendations, has hell to pay. The outspoken nurse is labeled a 'bitch' by the surgeon. The psychiatri.. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 7fe1d16 | California nurse Jared Axen was holding a dying hospice patient's hand when he began to sing an old hymn. The woman, who didn't speak English, hadn't been responsive in days. But when Axen sang to her, she squeezed his hand, a response that soothed the woman's family. Six years later, Axen, a classically trained musician, sings to some of his patients every day. "It gives them their humanity back," he said. "Music is a common language that .. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| f5fb273 | Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them. | mentoring parenting | Alexandra Robbins | |
| e57ddd7 | Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. | peer-pressure | Alexandra Robbins | |
| a48c786 | Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 7f408b9 | Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot. | Martha Grimes | ||
| 54805c2 | You're a comfort to me," he said simply. "I mean to be. I bet you haven't been comforted once since all this began. And that's not good, Bird. At a time like this you must be careful to have someone comfort you almost more than you need at least once. Otherwise you'll find yourself helpless when the time comes to summon up your courage and break away from chaos." | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 08d6ff5 | Manusia ialah khalifah; apabila kerajaan tidak bijak dan rakyat menderita, kenapa ia tidak membuat perubahan? | rintihan-terpendam | Kenzaburō Ōe | |
| 216b854 | Probably the sky a hundred yards or so above your head is still nothing more than sky to you. But all that means is that the storehouse happens to be empty at the moment. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 1a78a4f | The cul-de-sac was shaped like a stomach, a stomach with an obstruction in the duodenum. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 7ecad32 | After a blank of seven years it had taken him and his friend just seven minutes of conversation to eliminate everything worthy of their mutual curiosity. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| e60b13a | Evening was deepening, and the fever of early summer, like the temperature of a dead giant, had dropped completely from the covering air. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 44a2ac9 | Suddenly he is sighted by a giant phacochoere. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| aa5aff3 | What if there was a last judgment! Under what category of the Dead could you subpoena, prosecute, and sentence a baby with only vegetable functions who died no sooner than he was born? | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 5ed1e44 | And yet, rather than this I know that my Lord is different from the God that is preached in the churches. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 75781a1 | Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross. | faith love | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 640d6f6 | Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward th.. | inspirational life strength weakness | Shūsaku Endō | |
| a063397 | Ahh... I've never seen that before. - What? - Someone wearing glasses up here. - Really? Then that should tell how urgent the situation is. Boris Ivanowich to Kate Mishima, on board of ISS | Hiroki Endo | ||
| 3e8dd36 | Midville's best street was High Street. It was up on a hill. Not much of a hill, to tell the truth, but in that part of the state, the flat south-central part, hills are not taken for granted. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| a2d2b60 | Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| c8cf852 | I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 80a1288 | She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| c6b09b2 | I'm getting thirstier every minute. If it didn't hurt you, it won't hurt me. If my papa was here, he'd let me have some." "You're not going to tell him about it, are you?" said Jesse. His face had gone very pale under its sunburn. He stood up and put a bare foot firmly on the pile of pebbles. "I knew this would happen sooner or later. what am I going to do?" As he said this, there was a crashing sound among the trees and a voice called, ".. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| b167caf | And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 383d2d5 | I was more'n forty by then," said Miles sadly. "I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two. My wife, she finally made up her mind I'd sold my soul to the Devil. She left me. She went away and she took the children with her." "I'm glad never got married," Jesse put in." | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| ca20f05 | That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 859e6aa | After that we went sort of crazy," said Jesse, grinning at the memory. "Heck, we was going to live forever. Can you picture what it felt like to find that out?" "But then we sat down and talked it over..." said Miles. "We're still talking it over," Jesse added. "And we figured it'd be very bad if everyone knowed about that spring," said Mae. "We begun to see what it would mean." She peered at Winnie. "Do you understand, child? That water--i.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| bf29290 | The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| a20fd79 | There's a pretty good old rowboat. I'll take you out for a row after supper." "No, will," said Jesse. "Let . I found her first, didn't I, Winnie Foster? Listen, I'll show you where the frogs are, and..." "Hush," Tuck interrupted. "Everyone hush. take Winnie rowing on the pond. There's a good deal to be said and I think we better hurry up and say it. I got a feeling there ain't a whole lot of time." Jesse laughed at this, and ran a hand.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 67c0303 | Devotion - a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular. By | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 0f75665 | It is specially characteristic of the German that the more servile he on the one hand is, the more uncontrolled is he on the other; restraint and want of restraint--originality, is the angel of darkness that buffets us. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| bbf5c37 | Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefuhle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu konnen. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 72ee911 | De uil van Minerva vliegt pas uit bij het invallen van de duisternis. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| f996fe9 | most people start from disadvantage (often with no idea they are doing so) and do just fine. It's not unfair, it's universal. | Ryan Holiday |