Ellyn Stern quotes

“My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.”
-- Ellyn Stern

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“Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.”
-- Ellyn Stern

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“The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.”
-- Ellyn Stern

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“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”

“I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.”

“India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.”

“When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Source : As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books

“Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.”

“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”

“...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”