#raising

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#decision making #evolved #future #happy #interest

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#address #because #believe #changed #child

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#economy #free #free trade #government #just

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#time-consuming #very

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#apparently #cunningham #defense #donation #duke

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#creates #dramas #happening #i #life

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#benefits #cutting #economic #entering #europe

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#any #due #duties #hardly #i

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four