El pensamiento positivo parece obligatorio en este mundo del cáncer de pecho, hasta el punto de que si alguien es infeliz tiene casi que disculparse,
A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children’s best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father’s first duty to his...
Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I'm...
I displayed, or usually displayed, all those traits deemed essential to job readiness: punctuality, cleanliness, cheerfulness, obedience. These are the qualities that welfare-to-work job-training prog...
A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so...
Pero nadie se atreve a dar por supuesto que, si los niños llevan un rato callados, es porque están viendo un deuvedé educativo. No, las madres enseguida piensan que un hermano ha estrangulado a otro,...
Los empresarios confiaban en que el pensamiento positivo aplacara a las víctimas de las reestructuraciones y fomentara en los supervivientes las ganas de hacer un esfuerzo aún más heroico.
Las grandes empresas cada vez se parecen más a lo que llamamos sectas: organizaciones que exigen total sumisión a un líder de inspiración divina.
You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interrup...
With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping...
We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.
Very often in a classroom or a conversation I feel like yelling, 'What difference does it make?' Because 94% of my life is occupied with utter trivia. Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifferenc...
Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a family here, we associates and our servant leaders, held together solely by our commitment to the guests. After all, you’d need a lot strong...
So this was the mental procedure, which even a little girl could learn: First, size up the situation. Make sure you have all the facts, and nothing but the facts—no folklore, no conventional wisdom, n...
Según una historia del coaching que se puede leer en internet, el sector de los coaches o entrenadores le debe su enorme crecimiento en la década de 1990 a que se acabó ‘el empleo vitalicio’.35 La gra...
Según el plan de los Simonton, la mujer tenía que dedicar parte de la jornada a dibujar batallas entre células con forma de insecto, como si fueran un tebeo. Si en estos dibujos las células cancerosas...
Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry or lift the fallen. Mercy is left entirely to us.
In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.
In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have...