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“The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Team #Kids #Technology
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“After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Strong #Important #Narrative
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“Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Cancer #Health #Want
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“There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Stories #Narrative #Inspired
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“The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Thinking #Stories #Way
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“The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Skeletons #Lines #Want
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“Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#America #Domain
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“Moses is our true founding father.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Father #Moses #Founding
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“I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Book #Writing
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“Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Father #Inspiration
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“Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Kids #Dinner #Family Dinner
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“Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Hate #Book #Confession
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“I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Memories #School #Climbing
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“My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Names #Desire #Stories
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“Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Father #People #Risk
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“I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Writing #Library #Eras
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“I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Always Believe
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“Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Tired #Kids #Ideas
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“The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Successful #Embrace #Family History
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“One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Writing #World #Force
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“I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Spiritual #Connections #Generations
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“Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Dream #Book #Writing
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“Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Use #World #Forget
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“Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Biblical #Names #Creator
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“Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Father #Names #Modern
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“Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Turtles #World #Walks
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“There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Laundry #Profundity
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“The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Reflection #Climbing #Light
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“May your first word be adventure and last word love.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Adventure #May #Lasts
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“But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.”
-- Bruce Feiler
#Fruit #Adam #Disappoint
