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Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

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Amy Chua
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 26
Economist
Lawyer
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
Champaign
Illinois
Amy L. Chua
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
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Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.
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I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
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Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
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Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.
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Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things I should think that's good for their confidence.
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Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
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My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.
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When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
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Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
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We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
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You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
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For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9pm! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. Why can't I do this? Why are there so many rules? But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.
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Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
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Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
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China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
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