“It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.” PlayDreamKidsGamesWinningNumbersPlayerCrazyFootballCollegeVideoBunchAwardsDreams Come TrueCollege FootballPrestigiousNcaa Author:Johnny Manziel
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.” PeopleIfsNeedsKidsOrderPowerfulNumbersAcceptanceMetsOur FamilyBelongingElsewhereApprovalTrust Me Book:Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family Source: Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
“I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.” ThinkingWayBelieveHelpingDreamKidsPastCan DoWalksNumbersDeserveGet UpStumbling Author:Dwayne Johnson
“My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.” PeopleNeedsLittlesKidsNumbersFocusPrioritiesFocus In Life Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'” PeopleYearsStillsKidsNumbersNew York Author:Samm Levine
“When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.” PeopleIfsYearsWarProblemKidsNumbersStreetsMinutesThirdsMathGradesZoneNeighborhoodOverwhelmingAfghanistanFourthFlipWidowsOrphanTextbooksFacetsGrenadeThird GradeFourth GradeWar ZonesWidows And OrphansMujahideenKalashnikov Author:Khaled Hosseini
“In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.” BelieveSometimesHumorKidsAmericaPoliticalCultureSexWaitingNumbersPracticeMillionsViolenceProgramInnocenceSpitePregnancyBelieve In GodTeensVolunteerSignalsLarge NumbersPopular CulturePolitical HumorTeen PregnancyVolunteer Work Author:George W. Bush