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Anna Freud Quote: 'Children usually do not blame themselves ...'

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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.


Robert Collier
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Roger Federer
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Evel Knievel
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.
Hilary Mantel
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
Daniel Kahneman
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The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
Pamela Stephenson
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Robert Sternberg
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I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.


Arizona Muse
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I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.
Teri Polo
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
Helen McCrory
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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Tom G. Palmer
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.


Eberhard Arnold
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No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.
Craig T. Nelson
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis
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Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.


Matt Cartwright
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One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.
Kristin Armstrong
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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
Bob Newhart
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Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
Timothy Noah