“Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.” PeopleMenPoliticsEnergyClassIssuesKeysVotersSenateDefiniteMaking Friends Author:Quintus Tullius Cicero
“If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.” IfsWayTryingChildrenPersonsMotivationalTurnsCultureCausesParentTeacherTroubleGroupsConditionsDevelopmentBoredToleratePeersOutstandingNeurosisOne SidedMaking FriendsBeing BoredPeer Group Author:Margaret Mead
“That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.” WayFunnyGirlSexHumorousStrangerThat GirlMaking Friends Author:Joan Rivers
“I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.” PeopleDifficultyShyLackingJuniorsJunior HighMaking Friends Author:Alex Flinn