“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.” RunningChanceSpaceCareersFiveChildhoodAchieveAmbitionBritishYour ChildrenPrincessCowboyPollsRangers Author:Jay Leno
“No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.” WorldWellsChildhoodAchieveThis WorldAmountDrivenHappy Childhood Author:Sue Grafton
“It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens.” WorldTryingLittlesDreamGirlRolesTroubleChildhoodAchieveLonelinessWaveAccomplishmentBeing The BestEmptinessLayersShedKitten Author:Anne Taylor Fleming
“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.” IfsWantFeelsHas BeensSometimesBitsGoalTakenSacrificeChildhoodAchieveTinyAchieving Your Goals Author:Freddy Adu
“I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.” KnowsMenTryingMindWantedTogetherChildhoodAchieveParticularDadBlameMy DadEnormousInabilityDeficitFamily LifeBlueprintsFrame Of Mind Author:Bruce Springsteen
“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.” WorldMadeDifferentKidsGamesGrowsDifferencesGrowing UpTakenChildhoodAchieveDiseaseIntelligentSavingOutcomesReportsPhilanthropyPhenomenalFull PotentialMalnutritionVery PositiveHaving KidsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates