Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

Ron Suskind's Popular Quotes

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

- Ron Suskind

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

- Ron Suskind

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

- Ron Suskind

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

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The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to e…

- Ron Suskind

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

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Confidence is the public face of competence.

- Ron Suskind

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White…

- Ron Suskind